Adjective : a four-pronged fork. From Dictionary.com.
"We're going to do this two-pronged, meaning in parallel," Vitavas Srivihok, director general for ASEAN affairs at the Thai foreign ministry, told AFP. From Wordnik.com. [Channel NewsAsia Front Page News] Reference
The stakes and two-pronged forks, and willow-bands. From Wordnik.com. [The Georgics] Reference
He went nearer, holding his pronged stick in front of him. From Wordnik.com. [Kiddie the Scout] Reference
The group addressed the problem through a two-pronged policy. From Wordnik.com. [Oil rigs' safety net questioned as governments rely on private inspections] Reference
Certainly, the two-pronged launch strategy defies expectations. From Wordnik.com. [Chinese trucks soon to be on the American menu] Reference
Late last week aides said Clinton was exploring a two-pronged approach. From Wordnik.com. [Putting Clinton In A Bind On Bosnia] Reference
He raised a tiny, claw-pronged paw and shouted, “Pro bono publico!”. From Wordnik.com. [Revolutionaries] Reference
For the next three weeks, the Spotlight Team followed a two-pronged game plan. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: The Sins of the Fathers] Reference
In addition to the manalight, there was the mazer, a two-pronged electric tazer. From Wordnik.com. [Arcana Magi - c.10: To the Horizon] Reference
Most corporations have taken a two-pronged approach to dealing with this problem. From Wordnik.com. [The Real Value Of 3Par] Reference
Is your emphasis on winning the air war or on diplomacy, or is it a two-pronged effort?. From Wordnik.com. [Stopping The Catastrophe] Reference
But the core of his sound is the metal-pronged traditional hand piano called the mbira. From Wordnik.com. [Two Different Musical Takes on Politics in Zimbabwe] Reference
The media agency source argued that Five needed a two-pronged approach to gain market share. From Wordnik.com. [Channel Five chief reassures staff as experts question strategy] Reference
Iran's retaliation for an Israeli strike is likely to be fierce, protracted, and multi-pronged. From Wordnik.com. [MJ Rosenberg: Pro-Bombing Iran Is Anti-Israel] Reference
"And just to think he's the very five-pronged old boy I've been talking about this long while.". From Wordnik.com. [With Trapper Jim in the North Woods] Reference
Wilson has adopted a two-pronged strategy to convince Californians that he deserves another term. From Wordnik.com. [Getting Back To Business] Reference
These rods were pronged branches, sometimes of willow, but preferably of witch-hazel or wild cherry. From Wordnik.com. [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference
Then stir up the ground with a trowel, or three-pronged fork, and in August they will be fit to transplant. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
Wielding a heavy-duty fishing rod, he cast a line bearing a three-pronged hook that caught on the gator's hide. From Wordnik.com. [Florida's Gator Frenzy] Reference
TRYGAEUS See, how their iron spades glitter and how beautifully their three-pronged mattocks glisten in the sun!. From Wordnik.com. [Peace] Reference
Attached to the collar, Loretta saw, was a two-pronged fork that had penetrated both the man's chin and also his chest. From Wordnik.com. [One Thousand Incarnations and One Thousand Deaths - Part I] Reference
At dinner, he ordered wine for us and didn't get carded, and he showed me how to eat escargot with a tiny two-pronged fork. From Wordnik.com. [Old Flame] Reference
In both the fruits fall out freely from the glume, and in the latter the awns are three-pronged and shorter than the grain. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
A four-pronged anchor was tossed out to prevent the motor boat from drifting away, and then the young man came up the beach. From Wordnik.com. [Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Christmas Tree Cove] Reference
My two-pronged plan: First, try to follow our own buying advice and second, try to make the process as painless as possible. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of our Volkswagen GTI - Car buying made easy] Reference
The strategy is two-pronged: continue building boutique hotels but also develop a chain of lower-priced, "" Gap-like '' hostelries. From Wordnik.com. [Expanding The Inn Crowd] Reference
The three-pronged circuit rolls through southeastern Greenville, delivering riders onto a mild false flat to the finish of each lap. From Wordnik.com. [U.S. Cycling This Week: Strong U.S. Pro and `cross rosters headline this week] Reference
Each held a luscious cactus fruit gingerly in her fingers, trying to open it without getting the tiny pronged spikes in their fingers. From Wordnik.com. [The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure] Reference
There, leaning dejectedly against one of the pronged cedar posts on the tiny stoop, was a spectre figure, ghastly of countenance -- Judd's. From Wordnik.com. ['Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands] Reference
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