Definition of "tang"

tang¹

/tæŋ/

noun
plural tangs
1. A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor.
  Quotations
  The miraculous air, heady with ozone and made memorably sweet by leagues of wild flowerets, gave tang and savour to the breath.
  1904, O. Henry, The Missing Chord
2. A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself.
3. (figuratively) A sharp, specific flavor or tinge.
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  Such proceedings had a strong tang of tyranny.The spelling has been modernized.
  1655, Thomas Fuller, edited by James Nichols, The Church History of Britain, […], new edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837
  a cant of philosophism, and a tang of party politics
  1806, Francis Jeffrey, “Memoirs of Dr. Priestley”, in The Edinburgh Review
  What, was it I who bared my heart / Through unrelenting years, / And knew the sting of misery's dart, / The tang of sorrow's tears?
  1913, Paul Laurence Dunbar, At Sunset Time
4. A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part.
  Quotations
  "And inside the joints, these so-called O-rings are supposed to expand to make a seal—is that right?" ¶ "Yes, sir. In static conditions they should be in direct contact with the tang and clevis and squeezed twenty-thousandths of an inch."
  1988, Richard Feynman, Ralph Leighton, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character, New York, N.Y., London: W. W. Norton & Company, page 150
5. The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle.
6. (firearms) The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.
  Quotations
  The rifle carried a vernier sight on the tang […]
  1985, Cormac McCarthy, chapter IV, in Blood Meridian […]
7. The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.
8. (zoology) Any of a group of saltwater fish from the family Acanthuridae, especially the genus Zebrasoma.
9. (games) A shuffleboard paddle.
10. Obsolete form of tongue.
  Quotations
  Sauny Hear ye, sir; could not ye mistake, and pull her tang out instead of her teeth?
  1667, John Lacy, Sauny the Scot: Or, the Taming of the Shrew, Act V
11. (by extension) Anything resembling a tongue in form or position, such as the tongue of a buckle.

tang²

/tæŋ/

noun
plural tangs
1. A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang.
verb
third-person singular simple present tangs, present participle tanging, simple past and past participle tanged
1. (dated, beekeeping) To strike two metal objects together loudly in order to persuade a swarm of honeybees to land so it may be captured by the beekeeper.
2. To make a ringing sound; to ring.
  Quotations
  let thy tongue tang arguments of state
  c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene v]

tang³

/tæŋ/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural tangs
1. (rare) knotted wrack, Ascophyllum nodosum (coarse blackish seaweed)

tang⁴

/tæŋ/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural tangs
1. (countable, vulgar slang) The vagina.
  Quotations
  The guys like to look at her tang, because that's how they are […]
  2002, Lynn Breedlove, Godspeed, St. Martin's Griffin, page 9
2. (uncountable, vulgar slang) sexual intercourse with a woman

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