to tong

Examples

• All

• From the 1920s into the late 1950s, about 700-800 boat crews (1-3 men/crew) were tonging oysters in the river.

  Academic text (1996)

• It could carry as many as 40 bushels, was loaded by a man tonging from the beds, and was in use throughout the 1800s.

  Academic text (1996)

• Oystering in this manner is said to be harder and slower work than tonging them.

  Academic text (1996)

• The earliest oystermen were local farmers who tonged them (Ford, in press).

  Academic text (1996)

• I supported myself crabbing, gill netting, and tonging oysters during winter.

  Fiction book (1995)

• In Great South Bay, Long Island, fishermen raked and tonged quahogs throughout the year, but mostly in summer when oysters were not in season.

  Academic text (1991)

• During the seasons from 1865-66 to 1892-93, from 1,658 to 4,741 boats were licensed for tonging oysters.

  Academic text (1996)

• They engaged in the market economy by working seasonally on resorts, serving as guides for sport hunters, tonging for oysters, packing shrimp, and cutting timber.

  Academic text (2011)

• The first type of boat from which U.S. fishermen tonged oysters was the dugout canoe (Fig. 10); the large ones carried about 40 bushels.

  Academic text (1996)

• PHOTO (BLACK & WHITE): Figure 41. — A fisherman tonging in his dory, which he propelled with oars.

  Academic text (1996)

Antonyms

D

to drop

∞ 1.0

To let something fall suddenly or by accident

Compounds

T

tong ho

9.9

A leafy green used in Asian cooking for its tender edible leaves

How Firmly

to clamp

47 3.3

to grasp

60 1.1

to tong

1 5.5

to pick up

834 1.0

to touch

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology