thong
noun
a strip of material, especially of leather or hide, used to fasten or secure something.
thonged
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a word derived from
thong.
Example Sentences
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Jungle soldiers who had never worn shoes dug their toes into thonged rubber sandals to protect their feet against the hard city streets.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 2018
The forked limb, in shape like a Y, was set astride the cantle, with the lower ends thonged stoutly to Dick's legs and to the girths.
From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Francis Lynde
Watching them was another local in a kilt, buskins and a leather jerkin; he wore a short sword on his belt and carried a wickedly thonged whip.
From Space Viking by H. Beam Piper
Then moved they slowly downward till a light Shining the door-post and thonged door between Showed the square Prince's House.
From Poems New and Old by John Freeman
Her graceful legs were bare, but her little feet were incased in neat, cow-hide moccasins with the hair on, laced and thonged about her round ankles.
From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald
