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resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches

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  • Here and there the fork-like helga showed its purple blossom, and sometimes
  • Until now the measures had focused on the distribution of pepper spray and fork-like tools to keep potential assailants at bay.
  • A few feet back a solid pillar stands on the ground, through the fork-like top of which a pine-tree trunk is fixed, generally about thirty feet long.
  • Some are of the size and pattern of an old-fashioned corn cutter, handles of carved wood or carabao horn; sometimes made with a fork-like tip and waved with saw teeth edge.
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