Also 5 taang, 7–9 dial. teng. [f. TANG sb.1]
1. trans. † To pierce; to prick (obs.); to sting as a serpent or an insect. Also absol. (Now dial.)
a. 1400–50. Alexander, 4798. At oþir time of oure tulkis was tangid to dede And slayn with þa serpents a sowme out of noimbre.
c. 1400. Maundev. (Roxb.), xxxi. 141. Þai had within þam nedders, þat taanged þe husbands.
c. 1440. Alph. Tales, 473. A serpent … tanged hym hugelie.
1684. Meriton, Praise Ale, 149. Hee [an ox]’s teng’d, hee’l dee; Let’s stick him.
1788. W. Marshall, Yorksh., II. Gloss., Teng, to sting, as the bee or the adder.
1888. Sheffield Gloss., s.v., That bee has tanged me.
† b. fig. To pierce with grief or compunction.
a. 1400–50. Alexander, 3637. Þan was he tangid with tene & turbled vnfaire.
2. To furnish with a tang, spike, flange, etc.
1566. in Invent. R. Wardr. (1815), 169. Item sex pair of brasin calmes tangit with irne serving for battertis, moyanis, falconis.
1608. Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. iv. III. Schisme, 122. But I will have your carrion shoulders goar’d With scourges tang’d with rowels [orig. garnes de cloux].
1839. Bywater, Sheffield Dial., 33. He mood’st blade…. Then he tangs it.
1879. Cassell’s Techn. Educ., IV. 298/1. The end of the tube is bent and hammered over … and is afterwards ‘dubbed’ or ‘tanged.’
† b. fig. To give point or effective force to. Obs.
a. 1518. Skelton, Magnyf., 2234. Tushe! these maters that ye moue are but soppys in ale; Your trymynge and tramynge by me must be tangyd.
3. To affect with a tang or (unpleasant) taste.
1686. F. Spence, trans. Varillas’ Ho. Medicis, 330. They tang’d the good and added to the bad.
1742. Lond. & Country Brew., I. (ed. 4), 36. The Liquor suffers, and will be tanged with a noxious Taste.
