What is "tonged"

Usage examples of "tonged".

By lunch I had tonged up four bushel baskets of oysters, which was my limit, an so I rowed back into shore.

I mean, all we need to do is get another ole skiff an tow it out to one of them islands where the water is clear, put the oysters we tonged up here in it, an sink it for a day.

She rubbed my hair through with a sweet scented oil, combed and brushed it down, then tonged every strand into cork screw curls.

He tonged a dead thing out of a bag and spread it on the stone surface.

I got up and walked around behind the cart and tonged some ice out of a cooler into a moderate-size tumbler.

Alex handed Uncle Bob his ginger ale, then tonged ice cubes into a squat glass and poured a little brown liquid over them, sighing faintly to himself.

She turned, tonged up a long flat fragment of steel with her two left hands and clanged the stock into the furnace.