tong
see also: Tong
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /tɒŋ/
Noun

tong (plural tongs)

  1. An instrument or tool used for manipulating things in a fire without touching them with the hands.
    • 1998, Alberdina Houtman, Marcel Poorthuis, Joshua Schwartz (editors), Sanctity of time and space in tradition and modernity, page 232:
      […] 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?
Translations Verb

tong (tongs, present participle tonging; past and past participle tonged)

  1. (intransitive) To use tongs.
  2. (transitive) To grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs.
Translations Translations Noun

tong (plural tongs)

  1. A Chinese secret society or gang.
Translations Noun

tong (plural tongs)

  1. Obsolete spelling of tongue#English|tongue

Tong
Proper noun
  1. Surname



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