a. [f. TANG sb.1 and v.1 + -ED.] Having a tang; furnished with a tang to fix in a handle; barbed; forked.

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1888.  Sheffield Gloss., Tanged, forked.

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1891.  R. Day, in Proc. Soc. Antiq., 22 Jan., 226. A small tanged chisel.

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1896.  Kipling, Seven Seas, 125. I left my views of Art, barbed and tanged below the heart of a mammothistic etcher at Grenelle.

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1899.  R. Munro, Prehist. Scotl., v. 167. Arrow points may be divided into tanged and untanged.

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1904.  Budge, Guide 3rd & 4th Egypt. Rooms Brit. Mus., 8. Iron javelin-head, tanged…. Barbed and tanged arrow-heads of iron.

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