The word 'prong' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a noun to describe one of the pointed, sharp projections of an object or a fork, or as a verb to describe a rapidly moving object that strikes with a jabbing motion. Example sentence: He jabbed the prong into the dirt.
In days of yore, when journalists clattered away on typewriters, articles ditched by the editor were literally "spiked" – on a metal prong.
The would-be Financial Fair Play implications incurred via the striker's wages and transfer fee probably put pay to any deal being talked seriously, but City may dip into the market for another attacking prong.
What matters is that he has simply fabricated the first prong of the three-pronged argument he accuses the Conservatives of making.
She is in her kitchen, which occupies one prong of a star-shaped house with walls that are full of windows but free of art.
But the fight has another prong: stripping carbon dioxide out of the smokestacks of power plants and other factories and storing it safely underground.
But the information prong of Israel's Gaza offensive involves far more than the tight control of press access.
He is putting faith in a two-prong strategy: claiming that the Lib Dems stopped the Tories from "doing horrible things" and blaming the Labour-dominated council for the lack of affordable housing in the area.
As Natalie Berg at Planet Retail, a market-research firm, argues, "if you were designing a supermarket from scratch today, you'd take the two-prong approach, a premium brand and a discount brand".The first Netto, which opened last week in Leeds, mimics Aldi and Lidl, for instance, by just carrying 2,000 or so products, unlike traditional supermarkets that often carry more than 25,000.
The hosts will be reluctant to break up the four-prong pace attack that skittled England cheaply in both innings at Perth's WACA ground, but have not won a test at the MCG without playing a specialist spinner in decades.
The problems affect two-prong wall adapters that came with some Mac and iOS devices between 2003 and 2015, Apple said, and were also bundled with the Apple World Travel Adapter Kit.
A freckled young fisherman told harrowing stories about a crab trap and a four-prong anchor.
