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Long Tom
1. A name for a gun of large size and long range.
1832M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log xi, in Blackw. Mag. July 27/2 The long Tom must be a tearer to pitch its mouthful of iron this length. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Long Tom, or Long Tom Turks, pieces of lengthy ordnance for chasers, &c. 1897Westm. Gaz. 13 Apr. 5/1 One of the white twins, familiarly known as ‘Long Toms’, from the Camperdown barbette. 1900Daily News 7 Mar. 2/6 Four ‘Long Toms’, or Canet guns of the type known as the ‘155 long’.
2. A kind of gold-washing cradle.
1839Amer. Railroad Jrnl. VIII. 98 The Long Tom..consists merely of a trough. 1852Elora (Ontario) Backwoodsman 17 June 2/4 The plough is a far more profitable instrument than ‘the long Tom’ or ‘the rocker’. 1855Marryat Mtns. & Molehills xiv. 262 They [miners] return to their camps and long toms [foot-n. gold washers]. 1874Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 18. 1890 Golden South 166 The real ‘Long Tom’ or cradle was a narrow trough filled with earth, into which water flowed; the cradle was rocked, and the gold washed from the earth fell into a tin dish.
3. dial. A name for certain animals (see quot.).
1854A. E. Baker Northampt. Gloss., Long Tom, the long-tailed titmouse, Parvus caudatus.
4. Austral. A marine fish of the family Belonidæ.
1883E. P. Ramsay Food Fishes N.S. Wales 29 (Fish. Exhib. Publ.) There are three or four species of Belone on our coast, all known under the name of ‘Long Toms’ by the fishermen. 1908E. J. Banfield Confessions of Beachcomber i. iv. 154 The ‘long tom’ (Zylosurus, sp.) or alligator-pike, which shoots from the water. 1934Bulletin (Sydney) 24 Jan. 20/2 The slender Long Tom must in future be known as Lewinichthys ferox... On the other hand the stout Long Tom is to be styled Lhotskia macleayana. 1965Austral. Encycl. V. 362/2 Long toms or Needle-fish, members of the family Belonidae, in England and America called garfish... Long toms have the habit of leaping from the water, when either pursuing or being pursued.
5. slang. A particularly high-powered telephoto camera lens.
1968‘J. Welcome’ Hell is where you find It iv. 58 There were Rollieflexes, a Leica, a Long Tom for peeping, a couple of polaroids. 1968‘O. Mills’ Sundry Fell Designs xiii. 142 Russ, grinning, remembered a Long Tom lens he had seen in the hands of one of the photographers. 1973R. Busby Pattern of Violence x. 165 The long tom lenses and the barrels of the TV cameras peering down into the cleared arena. |