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Tonging

Definition & Meaning

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Tonging is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of tong.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of tong.

More Meanings

  1. The action of seizing, grabbing, holding, or manipulating a given object with tongs.
  2. (colloquial) The action of seizing an object with tongs for the purpose of pictorially documenting the event.
  3. The action of opening wine bottles with port tongs by superheating the glass with the heated tongs, and then rapidly cooling the glass neck by applying a cold substance, thereby fracturing the glass neck open through heat stress.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pool, camber, pond, hall, tang, soup.

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