Tong

Quick meaning: Tong is a noun meaning (mostly plural) An instrument or tool used for manipulating things in a fire without touching them with the hands.

Meaning

(mostly plural) An instrument or tool used for manipulating things in a fire without touching them with the hands.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To use tongs.
2. (transitive) To grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs.
3. A Chinese lineage organization responsible for managing ancestral land.
4. A Chinese secret society or gang.
5. Obsolete spelling of tongue.

Example Sentences

An Ordinance to provide for the termination of the Block Crown Lease of Cheung Chau granted to Wong Wai Tsak Tong and for sub-lessees under the Block Crown Lease to hold directly from the Crown.

[…] these attributes are concrete expressions of God's care and providence and therefore not man-made. This explains the quite bizarre presence of a ‘pair’ of tongs in some lists: in order to make a tong one needs a tong, and how could the first tong be made without a tong?

Or plaine and perfite way of teachyng children, to vnderstand, write, and speake, the Latin tong, but specially purposed for the priuate brynging vp of youth in Ientlemen and Noble mens houses, and commodious also for all such, as haue forgot the Latin tonge, and would, by themselues, without a Scholemaster, in short tyme, and with small paines, recouer a sufficient habilitie, to vnderstand, write, and speake Latin.

Word Forms

• tongs
• tonging
• tonged

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