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Tom-tom
·noun ·see Tam-tam.
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tom-tom
A small drum, made from the stem of a hollowed tree, generally of the palm-tribe, as the centre is p...
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Tom
·noun The knave of trumps at gleek.
II. Tom ·add. ·noun A familiar contraction of Thomas, a proper ...
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tom
A pet bow-chaser, a 9 or 12-pounder. (See long tom.)
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Whip
·vt The long pennant. ·see Pennant (a).
II. Whip ·vt To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
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whip
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A single rope rove through a single block to hoist in light articles. Where greater and steadie...
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whip upon whip
A sort of easy purchase, much used in colliers. It consists of one whip applied to the falls of anot...
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Kelly, Hugh
(1739-1777)
Dramatist, s. of a Dublin publican, worked in London as a staymaker, 1760, and after ed...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Brown, Tom
(1663-1704)
Satirist, was ed. at Oxf., and there composed the famous epigram on Dr. Fell. He was fo...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Taylor, Tom
(1817-1880)
Dramatist, b. at Sunderland, ed. at Glasgow and Camb., and was Prof. of English Literat...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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captain tom
The leader of a mob; also the mob itself.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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mad tom
or tom of bedlam
otherwise an Abram Man. A rogue that counterfeits madness. CANT.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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peeping tom
A nick name for a curious prying fellow; derived from an old legendary tale, told of a taylor of Cov...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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tom cony
A simple fellow.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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tom long
A tiresome story teller. It is coming by Tom Long, the carrier; said of any thing that has been long...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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tom thumb
A dwarf, a little hop-o'my-thumb.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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long-tom
n.
name given in Sydney to Beloneferox, Gunth., a species of Garfish which has bothjaws prolonged t...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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long tom
, or long tom turks.
Pieces of lengthy ordnance for chasers, &c.
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tom astoners
Dashing fellows; from astound or "astony," to terrify.
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tom norie
A name of the puffin, Fratercula arctica.
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tom pepper
A term for a liar; he having, according to nautic tradition, been kicked out of the nether regions f...
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Sea whip
·- A gorgonian having a simple stem.
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Whip-shaped
·adj Shaped like the lash of a whip; long, slender, round, and tapering; as, a whip-shaped root or s...
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whip jacks
The tenth order of the canting crew, rogues who having learned a few sea terms, beg with counterfeit...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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to whip off
To run away, to drink off greedily, to snatch. He whipped away from home, went to the alehouse, wher...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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stock-whip
n.
whip for driving cattle.See quotations.
1857. W. Howitt, `Tallangetta,' vol. i. p. 100:
«The s...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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whip-bird
n.
See coach-whip bird.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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whip-snake
n.
or Little Whip-Snake.See under snake.
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whip-stick
n.
variety of dwarf Eucalypt; one of the Mallees; forming thick scrub.
1874. M. C., `Explorers,' p...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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whip-tail
n.
1) A fancy name for a smallKangaroo. See Pretty-Faces, quotation.
2) A Tasmanian fish; see unde...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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penny-whip
very small beer. Lane, a penny per quart.
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coach-whip
The pendant.
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double-whip
A whip is simply a rope rove through a single block; a double whip is when it passes through a lower...
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whip-staff
See whipII
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whip-jack
An old term, equivalent to fresh-water sailor, or a sham-shipwrecked tar. (See turnpike-sailors.)
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whip-ray
A ray with a long tail ending in a very fine point. It is armed with a dangerous serrated spine, jag...
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whip-saw
The largest of that class of useful instruments, being that generally used at the saw-pit.
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Fitzmaurice-Kelly, James
(b. 1858)
Writer on Spanish literature. Life of Cervantes (1892), History of Spanish Literature (18...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Tom and Jerry
·add. ·- A hot sweetened drink of rum and water spiced with cinnamon, cloves, ·etc., and beaten up w...
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Tom o' Bedlam
·add. ·- Formerly, a wandering mendicant discharged as incurable from Bethlehem Hospitel, ·Eng.; hen...
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tom t--dman
A night man, one who empties necessary houses.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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tom of bedlam
The same as Abram man.
otherwise an Abram Man. A rogue that counterfeits madness. CANT.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Tom Russell's mahogany
See mahogany.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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tom cox's traverse
Up one hatchway and down another: others say three turns round the long boat, and a pull at the scut...
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whether or no, tom collins
A phrase equivalent to, "Whether you will or not, such is my determination, not to be gainsaid."
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Whip-poor-will
·noun An American bird (Antrostomus vociferus) allied to the nighthawk and goatsucker;
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to whip the cock
A piece of sport practised at wakes, horse-races, and fairs in Leicestershire: a cock being tied or ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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whip-belly vengeance
or pinch-gut vengeance, of which he that gets the most has the worst share. Weak or sour beer.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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coach-whip bird
n.
Psophodes crepitans,V. and H. (see Gould's `Birds of Australia,' vol. iii. pl. 15);Black-throate...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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little whip-snake
See snake
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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knight of the whip
A coachman.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose