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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of tang.
  • adjective Having a tang.

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Examples

  • Go off we do, on tanged too, its what this mobs about

    Cheeseburger Gothic » And while you’re at it… another challenge. 2009

  • He got his fingers round a leather thong and tugged free a flimsy medallion of hammered tin, meant to resemble an oversized coin with the usual square hole through the middle but with an unusual eight-tanged starburst symbol crudely stamped onto the metal.

    Spirit Gate 2006

  • It was a medallion, like an oversized coin with the usual square hole through the middle but an unusual eight-tanged starburst symbol stamped into the metal.

    Spirit Gate 2006

  • Then something clanged like a low gong struck at a distance, and before his eyes a face flashed over the two feet, a face pale and distorted with a sort of infinite evil that twisted it like flame in the wind; but he knew, for the half instant that the gong tanged and hummed, that it was the face of Dick Humbird.

    This Side of Paradise 2003

  • The steel sides of the truck tanged with a patter of bullets.

    MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

  • The steel sides of the truck tanged with a patter of bullets.

    MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

  • The steel sides of the truck tanged with a patter of bullets.

    MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

  • To his right were the tanged barrels, each with pierced tenons on its under side.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • To his right were the tanged barrels, each with pierced tenons on its under side.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • “What — gaze around at this splendid, salt-tanged city with its jostling merchants and shippers and landowners, all totally disinterested in me or my problems, then cut my throat?”

    Two For The Lions Davis, Lindsey 1998

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