What is another word for prongs?

Pronunciation: [pɹˈɒŋz] (IPA)

Prongs refer to the pointed, projecting parts of an object that help to hold something in place. Synonyms for prongs include tines, spikes, teeth, points, and claws. Tines are long, narrow, pointed projections that are often found on the end of a fork or pitchfork. Spikes are sharp or pointed projections, often used to hold something in place or to deter someone or something from reaching an object. Teeth are protruding, pointed elements used for gripping, tearing, or cutting. Points are sharp, pointed projections that can be used to pierce or hold something in place while claws are sharp, curved projections usually found on animals that they use for gripping or tearing.

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Usage examples for Prongs

With the lips and throat of a corpse, Dick Wrinkle swore; the pupils of his eyes dilated; his yellow fingers, like prongs of dried rawhide, clutched the edge of the table, and the tremor of his body shook it visibly.
"Dixie Hart"
Will N. Harben
Presently the steel prongs grated on some obstruction.
"Max Carrados"
Ernest Bramah
One last visit to the silent keepers of these messages from dead monarchs-and we pass down to the high road, whence we look back once more upon Trirashmi, the casket of jewels without price, and her twin sisters gleaming in the morning light like the triple prongs of some giant Trident set there by Nature in honour of the great apostle of Humanity.
"By-Ways of Bombay"
S. M. Edwardes, C.V.O.

Famous quotes with Prongs

  • Defiling their shadows, infidels, accursed of Allah, with fingernails that are foot-long daggers, with mouths agape like cauldrons full of teeth on the boil, with eyes all fire, shaitans possessed of Iblis, clanking into their wars all linked, like slaves, with iron chains. Murad Bey, the huge, the single-blowed ox-beheader, saw without too much surprise mild-looking pale men dressed in blue, holding guns, drawn up in squares six deep as though in some massed dance depictive of orchard walls. At the corners of the squares were heavy giins and gunners. There did not seem to be many horsemen. Murad said a prayer within, raised his scimitar to heaven and yelled a fierce and holy word. The word was taken up, many thousandfold, and in a kind of gloved thunder the Mamelukes threw themselves on to the infidel right and nearly broke it. But the squares healed themselves at once, and the cavalry of the faithful crashed in three avenging prongs along the fire-spitting avenues between the walls. A great gun uttered earthquake language at them from within a square, and, rearing and cursing the curses of the archangels of Islam on to the uncircumcized, they wheeled and swung towards their protective village of Embabeh. There they encountered certain of the blue-clad infidel horde on the flat roofs of the houses, coughing musket-fire at them. But then disaster sang along their lines from the rear as shell after shell crunched and the Mamelukes roared in panic and burden to the screams of their terrified mounts, to whose ears these noises were new. Their rear dissolving, their retreat cut off, most sought the only way, that of the river. They plunged in, horseless, seeking to swim across to join the inactive horde of Ibrahim, waiting for .action that could now never come. Murad Bey, with such of his horsemen as were left, yelped off inland to Gizeh.
    Anthony Burgess

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