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Definition of Prongs
1. prong [v] - See also: prong
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prongs
Literary usage of Prongs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cultivator by New York State Agricultural Society (1849)
"Thu» the depression of the handle raises the whole frame with its prongs. Again,
when the handle is elevated, the operation is reversed; the wheels are ..."
2. Peoples of the Philippines by Alfred Louis Kroeber (1919)
"With these tribes it is fashioned into three long prongs above and two below.
... Roof- Shaped Northern Type of Rectangular Shield with Exaggerated prongs. ..."
3. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... The while the priest maintain'd the logs aflame, And pour'd libation of bright
wine thereon, And youths with ready prongs stood near the fire. ..."
4. The Mechanics' Magazine (1856)
"II are a series of prongs or blades of the form represented ; the prongs or
blades, 11, are jointed to levers, mm, at я, and the said levers, mm, ..."
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