I handled my knife in a hurry, and made more than one hole in his skin, while he stuck a prong through my arm.

7. That iron collars, with projecting prongs, rendering it almost impossible for the wearer to lie down, are fastened upon the necks of women.

Held by the horns 'neath this cumbersome yoke, Firmer fixed thus than a "pig in a poke," Feeling the "prong" and the lengthy stick's stroke, Ours, alas, is a terrible fate.

See Halliwell, v. tine, where the word is said to mean "the prong of a fork (second explanation)," thence, as in the text, a horn.

In the stampede little Tommy fell right in the path of the infuriated animal, and would have lost his life had not Harry, with a courage and presence of mind above his years, suddenly seized a prong which one of the fugitives had dropped, and, at the very moment when the bull was stopping to gore his defenceless friend, advanced and wounded it in the flank.

First, fingers; then, pieces of bark; then, rough wooden spoons, knives, two-pronged steel forks; and lastly, an epitome of civilization in each one that is used, five-pronged silver forks, evincing both the increased complexity of the nature that devises the extra prongs, and the refinement of taste that insists upon the silver.

He could use a prong in the haymaking; he could reap a little, and do good service tying up the cut corn.

We will extend the first prong upward, cross it and make 't' of it, using the second prong as a flourish.