tang
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 instrument or hand tool, which is inserted into the handle.
The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.
(firearms) The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.
(zoology) Any of a group of saltwater fish from the family Acanthuridae, especially the genus Zebrasoma.
(games) A shuffleboard paddle.
(by extension) Anything resembling a tongue in form or position, such as the tongue of a buckle.
A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang.
(dated, beekeeping) To strike two metal objects together loudly in order to persuade a swarm of honeybees to land so it may be captured by the beekeeper.
To make a ringing sound; to ring.
(rare) Knotted wrack, Ascophyllum nodosum (coarse blackish seaweed).
(vulgar slang) The vagina or vulva.
(vulgar slang) Sexual intercourse with a woman