"forky" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1669, John Baptiſta Porta, chapter V, in Natural Magick, The Third Book Of Natural Magick: […], page 68",
          "text": "[…] for hungry birds have devoured ſeeds, and having moiſtened and warmed them in their bellies, a little after have dunged in the forky twiſtes of Trees, and together with their dung excluded the ſeed whole which erſt they had ſwallowed: and ſometimes it brings forth there where they dung it, […]",
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          "ref": "1764, John Hill, The Vegetable System. Or, The Internal Structure And The Life Of Plants; […], volume 7, page 32",
          "text": "The Leaves are compoſed each of ſeven parts; the Flowers grow by two's on forky Footſtalks.",
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          "ref": "1857, Abigail Stanley Hanna, Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland",
          "text": "The forky lightning flashed, and the deep toned thunder reverberated peal on peal, while the shrieking winds rocked the tree tops, and poured their wild melody upon the ear.",
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          "ref": "1896, Captain Frederick Marryat, The Phantom Ship",
          "text": "The column of fire now ascended above the main-top—licking with its forky tongue the top-mast rigging—and embracing the mainmast in its folds: […]",
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          "ref": "1921, Various, The Red Romance Book",
          "text": "At the sight of the young man it lashed its tail so violently that the earth trembled as if with an earthquake, while its forky tongue darted in and out with a deafening hissing noise.",
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