Tang

1. n. A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang.
2. n. A coarse blackish seaweed (Fuscus nodosus).
3. n. A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself; as, wine or cider has a tang of the cask.
4. n. Fig.: A sharp, specific flavor or tinge. Cf. Tang a twang.
5. n. A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part; anything resembling a tongue in form or position.
6. n. The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle.
7. n. The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.
8. n. The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.
9. n. The tongue of a buckle.
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The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.