Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Forked \Forked\, a.
   1. Formed into a forklike shape; having a fork; dividing into
      two or more prongs or branches; furcated; bifurcated;
      zigzag; as, the forked lighting.

            A serpent seen, with forked tongue.   --Shak.

   2. Having a double meaning; ambiguous; equivocal.

   {Cross forked} (Her.), a cross, the ends of whose arms are
      divided into two sharp points; -- called also {cross
      double fitch['e]}. A {cross forked of three points} is a
      cross, each of whose arms terminates in three sharp
      points.

   {Forked counsel}, advice pointing more than one way;
      ambiguous advice. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. -- {Fork"ed*ly},
      adv. -- {Fork"ed*ness}, n.