Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A loud ringing sound; a clang or twang.
  • intransitive & transitive verb To resound with a tang or cause to resound with a tang.
  • noun A distinctively sharp taste, flavor, or odor, as that of orange juice.
  • noun A distinctive quality.
  • noun A sharp point, tongue, or prong.
  • noun A projection by which a tool, such as a chisel or knife, is attached to its handle or stock.
  • transitive verb To furnish with a tang.
  • transitive verb To give a tang to.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as tenrec.
  • noun A point; a projection; especially, a long and slender projecting strip, tongue, or prong, forming part of an object and serving to hold or secure it to another.
  • noun The sting of an insect or a reptile.
  • noun A dagger.
  • noun In the papier-mâché process of stereotyping, a piece of thin sheet-iron or cardboard used to overlap the tail-end of the matrix, and prevent the molten metal from flowing under the mold in the casting-box. Also called tail-piece.
  • noun Sound; tone; ring; especially, a twang, or sharp sound.
  • noun A kind of seaweed; tangle. See tangle.
  • To ring; twang; cause to sound loudly: as, to tang a bell; also, to utter loudly, or with a twang.
  • To affect in some way by a twanging sound: as, to tang bees (to strike two pieces of metal together so as, by producing a loud sound, to induce a swarm of bees to settle).
  • To ring; twang; sound loudly.
  • noun A strong taste or flavor; particularly, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself.
  • noun A specific flavor or quality; a characteristic property; a distinctive tinge, taint, or tincture.
  • To furnish with a tang, or with something resembling one.
  • To tie.
  • To sting.
  • noun A fish belonging to the family Teuthididæ, Teuthis hepatus, of the West Indian fauna.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To cause to ring or sound loudly; to ring.
  • transitive verb to cause a swarm of bees to settle, by beating metal to make a din.
  • noun A dynasty in Chinese history, from a. d. 618 to 905, distinguished by the founding of the Imperial Academy (the Hanlin), by the invention of printing, and as marking a golden age of literature.
  • noun A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang.
  • noun (Bot.) A coarse blackish seaweed (Fuscus nodosus).
  • noun (Zoöl.), [Prov. Eng.] the rock pipit.
  • intransitive verb To make a ringing sound; to ring.
  • noun A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself.
  • noun Fig.: A sharp, specific flavor or tinge. Cf. Tang a twang.
  • noun A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part; anything resembling a tongue in form or position.
  • noun The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle.
  • noun The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.
  • noun The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.
  • noun Prov. Eng. The tongue of a buckle.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun vulgar slang The vagina; intercourse with a woman
  • noun A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang
  • verb To make a ringing sound; to ring.
  • noun obsolete tongue
  • noun A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor
  • noun A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself; as, wine or cider has a tang of the cask
  • noun figuratively A sharp, specific flavor or tinge
  • noun A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part; anything resembling a tongue in form or position
  • noun The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle
  • noun The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Imitative.]

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English tange, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse tangi, point, sting.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From poontang by shortening

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imitative

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From Middle English tang ("serpent's tongue", "extension of blade"), from Old Norse tangi ("pointed metal tool"), perhaps related to tunga ("tongue"). But see also Old Dutch tanger ("sharp", "tart", "pinching")

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Probably of Scandinavian origin; compare Danish tang ("seaweed"), Swedish tång, Icelandic þang

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Examples

  • With an 870 and almost any other shotgun, the end grain of the stock where it joins the action at the tang is a usual trouble spot for oil soaking.

    Gun storage, small space 2009

  • With an 870 and almost any other shotgun, the end grain of the stock where it joins the action at the tang is a usual trouble spot for oil soaking.

    Gun storage, small space 2009

  • Yes | No | Report from bigjake wrote 11 weeks 6 days ago not crazy about the safety on my old stevens 5000, only because of its postion on the tang is too close to the stock, and I have large hands, Im always checking the safety to make sure it hasnt been brushed ahead by hitting my hand.

    The Best (and Worst) Shotgun Safeties 2009

  • Yes | No | Report from bigjake wrote 11 weeks 6 days ago not crazy about the safety on my old stevens 5000, only because of its postion on the tang is too close to the stock, and I have large hands, Im always checking the safety to make sure it hasnt been brushed ahead by hitting my hand.

    The Best (and Worst) Shotgun Safeties 2009

  • It had a great flavor, with a nice butteriness and a very subtle tang from the long first rise.

    No-Knead White Bread | Baking Bites 2009

  • It comes out to be closer to the consistency of buttermilk than yogurt does and still has a little of that tang from the vinegar.

    Apple Cinnamon Muffins | Baking Bites 2009

  • It had a great flavor, with a nice butteriness and a very subtle tang from the long first rise.

    2009 April | Baking Bites 2009

  • It had a great flavor, with a nice butteriness and a very subtle tang from the long first rise.

    Baking Bites » Print » No-Knead White Bread 2009

  • Some find the tang of Pinkberry excessive, even aggressive; others say that yogurt without tang is just low-fat ice cream.

    Frozen Yogurt's Hot, Hot, Hot Steve Carper 2008

  • Cynthia -- There's no need to work up the courage as it's both sweet and rich with nary a hint of the usual goat's milk strong tang (instead, the tang is rather subtle at best).

    A Mexican sweet treat | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2008

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  • Tang is a sugared, fruit-flavored, non-carbonated soft drink from the USA. The original orange flavored Tang was formulated by General Foods Corporation in 1957 and first marketed (in powdered form) in 1959.

    It was initially intended as a breakfast drink, but sales were poor until NASA began using it on Gemini flights in 1965, and that use was heavily advertised.

    _Wikipedia

    February 3, 2008

  • See baldyhead.

    April 23, 2009

  • a point or sting OR a seaweed OR a fish

    February 8, 2013

  • "With wood spars, the conventional method used to attach the shroud and forestay is to use TANGS. Tangs are short metal straps usually with a crimp or bend to splay them out from the mast when in position."

    https://www.glen-l.com/free-book/rigging-small-sailboats-3.html

    December 22, 2016