Lewis Short
furcŭla | Furculae Caudinae (noun F) : dim.furca, II..
* A forked prop to support a wall when undermined: suspenso furculis ab hostibus muro,Liv. 38, 7, 9.
* Two lofty (fork-shaped) defiles near Caudium, where the Roman army, in the year A.U.C. 434, was hemmed in by the Samnites, now Casale di Forchia, Liv. 9, 2; 11; Flor. 1, 16; v. Caudium.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary