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prong noun A tributary of a stream or river. Also used in place names, as on the Little River (TN), in which case the name of the larger watercourse of which it forms a tributary was added to it. [DARE labels this usage “chiefly South, South Midland”]

1779 (in 1940 McJimsey Topo Terms in VA 299) To the ridge dividing the waters of Tygers Valley and Buchanan prongs of the Monongalia. 1862 Reese CW Letters (May 17) we air at fair feeld in 4 miles of war trace in 18 or 20 of murfrees Boro on one prong of duck River. 1913 Kephart Our Sthn High 91 Tuk right down the bed o' Desolation, up the left prong of Roaring Fork. 1956 Fink That’s Why 4 Fork and prong generally have added the name of the larger stream of which it is tributary, as West Prong of the Little Pigeon River, or Straight Fork of Oconaluftee River. 1996 Linn West Fork 3 The West Fork of the Little Pigeon begins at the juncture of Walker Prong and Road Prong.