tang

Definitions

• A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor.
• A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself.
• (figuratively) 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.
• (firearms) The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.
• The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.
• (fish) A group of saltwater fish from the Acanthuridae family, especially the genus.
• (games) A shuffleboard paddle.
• (obsolete) tongue
• (by extension) Anything resembling a tongue in form or position such as the tongue of a buckle.