tonge

plural tonges

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of tongue.

   1 more example

   Or plaine and perfite way of teachyng children, to vnderstand, write, and speake, the Latin tong, but specially purposed for the priuate brynging vp of youth in Ientlemen and Noble mens houses, and commodious also for all such, as haue forgot the Latin tonge, and would, by themselues, without a Scholemaster, in short tyme, and with small paines, recouer a sufficient habilitie, to vnderstand, write, and speake Latin.

   1570, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster

plural Tonges

1. A place in England:
   1. countableuncountableA river in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, which becomes the River Croal before joining the River Irwell.
   2. countableuncountableA village and civil parish in Swale district, Kent (OS grid ref TQ9363).
   3. countableuncountableA hamlet in Breedon on the Hill parish, North West Leicestershire district, Leicestershire (OS grid ref SK4123).
2. countableuncountableA surname.