The last time I saw him, he had quite a heavy iron yoke on his neck, the two prongs twelve or fifteen inches long, extending out over his shoulders and bending upwards.
A heavy iron collar, with three long prongs projecting from it, was placed round her neck, and a strong and sound front tooth was extracted, to serve as a mark to describe her, in case of escape.
The first he saw had three prongs projecting from the collar ten or twelve inches, with the letter S on the end of each.
Draw one of these pictures:-- The women chopping prongs from the beam of the antler.
Flaker knew that the women cut the prongs with a chopper, but a chopper was a woman's tool.
He pushed a flint flake back and forth upon one of the prongs of the antler.
When Flaker sawed the prongsfrom the beam, some of the places were rough.
All the women used the smallprongs of the antlers.
Grasping the top of the handle with his right hand, with the left midway down the handle, he pressed the prongs of the fork with his left foot vertically into the ground.
The best shoe for ordinary work is shaped something like a horse-shoe, but the prongs must not incline inwards on account of stones.
If the prongs be too close they will pick up stones continually, and probably split the pole or break.
The two guns belonging to Mrs. Shirril and their servant rested together on the deer's prongs over the mantel, and, to reach them, one must expose himself to another shot from the outside.
My theory is that the prongs are hollow, like a hypodermic needle, and leave a drop or two of poison at the bottom of the wound.
Still the prongs continued to click assiduously, for it was not late; and though the air was fresh and keen there was a whisper of spring in it that cheered the workers on.
It was on one of the couch-burning plots that she laboured with her fork, its four shining prongs resounding against the stones and dry clods in little clicks.
By-and-by he dug so close to her that the fire-beams were reflected as distinctly from the steel prongs of his fork as from her own.
To these cross heads Z, between theprongs of the fork in which the piston terminates, are attached the foremost ends of the connecting rods B'.
In the grooved collar are inserted the prongs of a fork K, formed at the end of the lever K L, the fulcrum or pivot of the lever being at L.
Then they cut in the jungle two branches, each with three prongs at one end, and place them, prongs downwards, over the heap of flowers, so as to make two tripods or pyramids.
The brute stood off for a minute, then charged the hemlock furiously, and butted it with his antlers till it shook to its roots, the sharp prongs of those terrible horns coming within half an inch of Dol's feet.
I mean, he was as fine a deer as ever I saw; weighed over two hundred pounds, had seven prongs to his horns on one side and six on the other.
But the man shouted loudly as the prongs pierced him and drove him backward, and instantly there was a sound of feet running across the yard.
Scuta with a prominent ridge extending, from the umbo to the apex, close to the occludent margin; fork of the carina with the prongs diverging at an angle of from 135 deg.
Carina, within deeply concave; exterior sides finely furrowed longitudinally, generally denticulated; valve only slightly narrowed in above the fork, of which the prongs diverge at an angle of 90 deg.
To one beam a pipe is fixed with iron clamps; to the other is fixed either the forked branch of a tree or a timber cut out at the top in the shape of a fork, and through the prongs of the fork a round hole is bored.
In his left hand is put his fork with the prongs downward, held near the top of the handle.
Then on the left of each plate, handle towards the edge of the table, and prongs up, is put the salad fork, the meat fork is put next, and then the fish fork.
In cutting he should learn not to scrape the back of the fork prongswith the cutting edge of the knife.
A fork must be used for all manipulations of vegetables; butter for baked potatoes taken on the tip of the fork shovel fashion, laid on the potato, and then pressed down and mixed with the prongs held points curved up.
Asparagus has various special lifters and tongs, but most people use the ordinary spoon and fork, putting the spoon underneath and the fork, prongs down, to hold the stalks on the spoon while being removed to the plate.
Having cut off a mouthful, he thrusts the fork through it, with prongs pointed downward and conveys it to his mouth with his left hand.
Though the book did not tell me anything about pulling teeth, it was all right, for on one page I found drawings of all the teeth, including their prongs and how they were set in the jaw.
When one sees a brass instrument that looks like a trident approaching one's body, and feels long crackling sparks shoot out of its prongs against one's body, it naturally makes a very strong impression upon one's mind.
Thus it served the same purpose as the familiar horse-shoe, when the latter was placed with the prongs downward.
A flat claw with two prongs spread like a can-hook; the same as a single span or claw-dog.
An iron instrument with several sharp-pointed prongs and a wooden handle: it is used to find whether the bore is honey-combed.
A staff with three, four, or more barbed prongs of steel at one end, and a line fastened to the other; used for striking fish at sea.
Now take an ordinary lucifer match and place one end between the network of the prongs firmly.
In illustrating this experiment the prongs of two ordinary table forks are fastened together, one over the other--net fashion--thus causing the handles of the forks to form the termini of an angle of about 45 degrees.
Then as the stalk increases in size from year to year, it finally becomes quite a sizable shrub of one main stalk, from which branch three, four, or even more prongs; the three and four prongs being more common.
The plant usually has three prongs with three large leaves and has small ones on each stem.
At the forward end the sides are pared away to form a tongue, or tenon, that will pass between the prongs of the upright, and a hole is bored through it to match those in the prongs.
The door was placed in an open position and the prongsof the brackets were nailed to the door post.
When it fell it had splintered lumps off the limbs, making them sharp at the ends, which were pointing up the track like the prongs of a great jagged toasting-fork.
A high wind had brought that tree down one night, and a new bend had been made in the track so as to avoid it where it lay with its jagged branches reaching out like the hungry prongs of a bundle of gigantic toasting-forks.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prongs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
