What is the meaning of forked?

verb

• Lift with a pitchfork.
  • usage: "pitchfork hay"
  • synonyms: pitchfork, fork
• Place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces.
  • synonyms: fork
• Divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork.
  • usage: "The road forks"
  • synonyms: branch, ramify, fork, furcate, separate
• Shape like a fork.
  • usage: "She forked her fingers"
  • synonyms: fork

adjective

• Resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches.
  • usage: "the biramous appendages of an arthropod"; "long branched hairs on its legson which pollen collects"; "a forked river"; "a forked tail"; "forked lightning"; "horseradish grown in poor soil may develop prongy roots"
  • synonyms: bifurcate, biramous, branched, fork-like, forficate, pronged, prongy
• Having two meanings with intent to deceive.
  • usage: "a sly double meaning"; "spoke with forked tongue"
  • synonyms: double