Meaning of Tong | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Obsolete spelling of tongue.
   alt-of, obsolete
2. A surname.
   countable, uncountable
3. An instrument or tool used for manipulating things in a fire without touching them with the hands.
   plural
4. A Chinese lineage organization responsible for managing ancestral land.
5. A Chinese secret society or gang.
6. A place in the United Kingdom:
   countable, uncountable
7. A hamlet in Headcorn parish, Maidstone district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ8346).
   countable, uncountable
8. A village and civil parish in eastern Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7907).
   countable, uncountable
9. A small village in the Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2230).
   countable, uncountable
10. A village north of Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Western Isles council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NB4436).
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“[…] 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?”

“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.”

“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.”

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