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Prong [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A sharp pointed instrument.

2. Prick it on a prong of iron.

3. The tine of a fork or of a similar instrument; as a fork of two or three prongs. [This is the sense in which it is used in America.]

Prong [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A sharp-pointed instrument.

2. The tine of a fork, or of a similar instrument; as, a fork of two or three prongs.

3. A sharp projection, as of an antler.

4. The fang of a tooth.

Prong-hoe [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A hoe with prongs to break the earth.

Prongbuck [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The springbuck.

2. The pronghorn.

Prongbuck Encyclopedia Britannica

PRONGBUCK. See Antelope, vol. ii. p. 102, and Plate I. fig. 6.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 19, p. 808
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Pronged [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having prongs or projections like the tines of a fork; as, a three-pronged fork.

Pronghoe [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A hoe with prongs to break the earth.

Pronghorn [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An American antelope (Antilocapra Americana), native of the plain near the Rocky Mountains. The upper parts are mostly yellowish brown; the under parts, the sides of the head and throat, and the buttocks, are white. The horny sheath of the horns is shed annually. Called also cabree, cabut, prongbuck, and pronghorned antelope.