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Teetotum

noun
1.
A conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin.  Synonyms: spinning top, top, whirligig.





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"Teetotum" Quotes from Famous Books



... bugler, baker, and farrier, man who came to fight and man who came to write about it, all had been turned into navvies, diggers, drivers of piles, or of horses, or wheelbarrows, by the man who turned everybody into his own teetotum. The Providence that guides the world showed mercy in sending that engine of destruction before there was a Railway for him to ...
— Springhaven - A Tale of the Great War • R. D. Blackmore
... my good friend," said the Jesuit, "let us come to the point. Are we to go up or down? I do not find fault, but you turn me about like a teetotum." ...
— The Wandering Jew, Complete • Eugene Sue
... you like it, Uncle Arch?" she demanded, clasping her hands and revolving before him like a teetotum. ...
— Teddy: Her Book - A Story of Sweet Sixteen • Anna Chapin Ray


Words linked to "Teetotum" :   toy, humming top, whirligig, top, spinning top, whipping top, whip top, plaything, peg top


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