Definition of "tung"
tung1
noun
plural tungs
Obsolete spelling of tongue both as language and as part of the body
Quotations
… words to be spoken with the understanding, that I may teach others also, than myriads of words, in a tung... In the law, it hath been written, That, with other tungs and other lips I will speak to this people, and then they will not hear ...
1848, Jonathan Morgan, The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Digitized edition, SH Colesworthy, published 2008, page 215
English has strength, simplicity, conciseness, capacity for taking words freely from other tungs, and best of all has the greatest literature the world has yet produced.
2002 Fall, Richard Whelan, quoting Melvil Dewey, “The American Spelling Reform Movement”, in Verbatim, The Language Quarterly, volume XXVII, number 4, page 5