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Spinning top   /spˈɪnɪŋ tɑp/   Listen
Spinning top

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





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"Spinning top" Quotes from Famous Books



... door; but we must enter." The woman now threw the door wide open and rushing into the yard with as much alacrity as her enormous proportions would admit, threw her arms out and whirled about like a reversed spinning top shouting for help. She was again assured that no harm was intended her, but that unless she chose to show us the house we should be obliged to go alone. Concluding that wisdom was the better part of valor, she proceeded ...
— Three Years in the Sixth Corps • George T. Stevens


Words linked to "Spinning top" :   whipping top, whirligig, humming top, plaything, whip top, teetotum, toy, peg top


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