Meaning

• A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor.

• A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself.

  "Wine or cider has a tang of the cask."

• 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 small instrument, which is inserted into the handle.

• The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.

• The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.

• A group of saltwater fish from the Acanthuridae family, especially the Zebrasoma genus.

• (games) A shuffleboard paddle.

• Tongue

• (by extension) Anything resembling a tongue in form or position such as the tongue of a buckle.