tang
/tæŋ/ · noun
Meaning
- A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor.
- A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself.
- A sharp, specific flavor or tinge.
- A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part.
- The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle.
- The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.
- A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang.
- 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.
- To make a ringing sound; to ring.
- Knotted wrack, Ascophyllum nodosum (coarse blackish seaweed)
- The vagina.
- Intercourse with a woman
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