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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



... shoots up here from its hot-bed in Spain. Small boys wander about the beach with long, cylindrical tin boxes painted a bright red and carried by a strap from the shoulder. The rim of the lid is marked off into numbered compartments, and in its centre is an upright teetotum with a bone projection; while the cylinder itself is filled with cones of crisp, flaky sweet-wafers, stacked one into another like cornucopias. The charge is one sou for a spin, and the figure opposite which the projecting bone-piece stops indicates the number of cones due ...
— A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees • Edwin Asa Dix



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



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