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Word entry · 5 letters

prong

Best crossword clue

"Fork point"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /pɹɒŋ/Part of speech nounSorted gnoprStarts with PEnds with G1 cluesCommon crossword word
1P2R3O4N5G

Definitions

  1. a pointed projection

Word origin

From Middle English pronge, perhaps from Middle Low German prange (“stick, restraining device”), from prangen (“to press, pinch”), from Old Saxon *prangan, from Proto-West Germanic *prangan, from Proto-Germanic *pranganą (“to press”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)preng- (“to wrap up, constrict”).

Used in a sentence

  • a pitchfork with four prongs
  • a comb with prongs
  • the two prongs of a river

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