tang
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Noun
- A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor.
- a tang of citrus
- A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself.
- a tang of cellar
- Wine or cider has a tang of the cask.
- A sharp, specific flavor or tinge.
- a tang of pedantry
- A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part.
- slip the cable over the tang
- full-tang
- A full-tang knife is strongest against handle breakage, but partial-tang knives are common because of a combination of facts: they are inexpensive, and in some applications any manner of use that would exceed the handle's limit is not an appropriate manner of use.
- The part of a knife, fork, file, or other instrument or hand tool, which is inserted into the handle.
- full-tang
- A full-tang knife is strongest against handle breakage, but partial-tang knives are common because of a combination of facts: they are inexpensive, and in some applications any manner of use that would exceed the handle's limit is not an appropriate manner of use.
- The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.
- The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.
- A shuffleboard paddle.
- Obsolete form of tongue.
- Anything resembling a tongue in form or position, such as the tongue of a buckle.
Noun
- A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang.
Verb
- 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.
Noun
- knotted wrack, Ascophyllum nodosum (coarse blackish seaweed)
Noun
- The vagina or vulva.
- Sexual intercourse with a woman
Noun
- Any of a group of saltwater fish from the family Acanthuridae, especially the genus Zebrasoma.
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