Usually means: Utensil for gripping and lifting.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. tong: Merriam-Webster
  2. tong, tong: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tong, tong: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tong: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Tong, tong: Wordnik
  6. Tong, tong: Wiktionary
  7. tong: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. tong: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. tong: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. tong: Dictionary.com
  11. Tong: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Tong (disambiguation), Tong (gang), Tong (organization), Tong (surname), Tong (ward), Tong: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Tong: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. Tong: Rhymezone
  15. Tong, tong (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. tong: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. tong: FreeDictionary.org
  18. tong: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tong: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tong: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tong: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tong: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

(Note: See tonged as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (tong)

noun:  (mostly plural) An instrument or tool used for manipulating things in a fire without touching them with the hands.
verb:  (intransitive) To use tongs.
verb:  (transitive) To grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs.
noun:  A Chinese lineage organization responsible for managing ancestral land.
noun:  A Chinese secret society or gang.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A place in the United Kingdom:
noun:  A hamlet in Headcorn parish, Maidstone district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ8346).
noun:  A village and civil parish in eastern Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7907).
noun:  A small village in the Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2230).
noun:  A village north of Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Western Isles council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NB4436).
noun:  Obsolete spelling of tongue. [The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.]

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