furca

furca ae, f

1 FOR-, a two-pronged fork : bicornes, V.: valentes, V.: furcis detrudi, L.— Prov.: Naturam expellas furcā, tamen usque recurret, with violence , H.— A fork-shaped prop, split stake, triangular brace : furcis spectacula sustinentibus, L.: furcas subiere columnae, O.— A wooden yoke (on the neck of a slave, for punishment): per circum furcam ferens ductus est: servus sub furcā caesus, L.: sub furcā vinctus, L.: Ibis sub furcam, H.