fang

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a long sharp tooth, as of a snake or dog

   The serpent bared a glistening fang.

From Old English 'fang' ('a catching, capture, booty'), from 'fōn' ('to seize'); the modern sense of a long tooth (originally 'that which seizes') developed by the 16th century. Of Proto-Germanic origin from '*fanhaną' ('to catch, seize').

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