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Definition of Humming top
1. Noun. A top that makes a humming noise as it spins.
Definition of Humming top
1. Noun. A toy with a point, around which it can be made to spin. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Humming Top
Literary usage of Humming top
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sports and Pastimes of American Boys: A Guide and Text-book of Games of by Henry Chadwick (1884)
"... HUMMING-TOP. Humming-tops can be purchased at any toyshop ; they are spun in
the following manner: after placing ..."
2. The Irish Penny Journal (1841)
"Why, a humming-top is aaa-humming top," quoth young master, somewhat posed. "
It makes a noise this way—hum, hum, hum—for all the world like a droning ..."
3. Cassell's Complete Book of Sports and Pastimes: Being a Compendium of Out by Cassell & Co, Cassell (London) (1896)
"humming top. humming tope are во called from the ... A humming top still more
mechanical in iU construction is to bo purchased now at almost any toy-shop ..."
4. The Circulator of useful knowledge, amusement, literature, science and (1825)
"Without the humming-top, the Greeks had never introduced their warrior- loaded hobby
... Without his humming-top, Philip of Mace- don had never quizzed the ..."
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