tongued, a. (ppl. a.)
(tʌŋd)
[f. tongue n. or v. + -ed.]
Having or furnished with a tongue or tongues (in various senses); tongued and grooved, furnished with a tongue and groove joint (see tongue n. 16). Also fig.
Also in numerous parasynthetic combs., as double-tongued, true-tongued, etc., for which see the first element.
| c 1369 Chaucer Dethe Blaunche 927 Ne trewer tonged, ne scorned lasse. 1390 Gower Conf. I. 218 This false tunged Perseus. 1413 Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton 1483) iii. iii. 51 Somme were by the eyen hanged with hookes, and som by the tonges, whiche as me semyd were tonged double. 1611 L. Barry Ram Alley iv. i. G ij, Nosd like a Goose, and toungd like a woman. 1635 A. Stafford Fem. Glory (1860) 185 Were all..the Starres of Heaven tongued, they could not all expresse thee so well, as a silent Extasie. 1666 J. Davies Hist. Caribby Isles 55 Two kinds of Tobacco Plants, commonly call'd..Green-Tobacco and Tongu'd Tobacco, from the figure of its leaf. 1773 Bristol (Va.) Vestry Bk. (1898) 238 A Dwelling House [shall] be built..[with] Good flouring Plank, well Tong'd & Groved. 1839 Ure Dict. Arts 966 The boring tools are..16. The tongued chisel. a 1847 Eliza Cook Silence 108 The soul..Shall keep an eloquence all, all her own, And mock the tongued interpreter. 1854 Bushnan in Circ. Sc. (c 1865) I. 284/1 Reeded and tongued instruments. 1884 Northern Echo 11 Aug. 2/5, 24,000 Feet of Grooved and Tongued Flooring Boards. 1886 Archæol. Cantiana XVI. p. xlv, The tongued or leaf-like ornament, so common in the period of Transition between pure Norman and pure Early English. 1897 F. C. Moore How to build Home 15 The sheathing should be tongued and grooved and planed on one side. 1955 J. S. Chappell Woodworking x. 136 A..stronger form of tongued and grooved joint is made by ploughing a groove in both edges to be joined. |