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ring; as, to prick a knife into a board. Sir I. Newton. The cooks prick it [a slice] on a prong of iron. Sandys.

East Indian deer (Rusa Aristotelis) having a mane on its neck. Its antlers have but three prongs. Called also gerow. The name is applied to other species of the genus Rusa, as the Bornean sambur (R. equina).

A prong used by coopers to extract bungs from casks. [Eng.]

A tooth, or spike, as of a fork; a prong, as of an antler.

an animal, in shape, position, or office; as, the teeth, or cogs, of a cogwheel; a tooth, prong, or tine, of a fork; a tooth, or the teeth, of a rake, a saw, a file, a card.

A kind of scepter or spear with three prongs, -- the common attribute of Neptune.

Having three prongs; trident; tridentate; as, a tridented mace. [R.] Quarles.

Something having three forks or prongs, as a trident. [Obs.] "Jupiter's trisulc." Sir T. Browne.

Having three furrows, forks, or prongs; having three grooves or sulci; three-grooved.

a. & n. from Tune, v. Tuning fork (Mus.), a steel instrument consisting of two prongs and a handle, which, being struck, gives a certain fixed tone. It is used for tuning instruments, or for ascertaining the pitch of tunes.

A prong or point of an antler.

strument for taking up some sorts of plants in weeding. -- Weeding fork, a strong, three-pronged fork, used in clearing ground of weeds; -- called also weeding iron. -- Weeding hook. Same as Weed hook, under 3d Weed. -- Weeding iron. See Weeding fork, above. -- Weeding tongs. Same as Weeding forceps, above.…