A toy of various shapes (cylindrical, obconic, etc.), but always of circular section, with a point on which it is made to spin, usually by the sudden…

A whirligig or top.

A spinning top.

A form of top.

Name of various toys that are whirled, twirled, or spun round; spec. †(a) a top or teetotum (cf. gig, n.1 1); (b) a toy consisting of a small spindle…

A child's spinning top.

= main sense.

A kind of spinning top. Obsolete. rare.

= teetotum, n.1

A small four-sided disk or die having an initial letter inscribed on each of its sides, and a spindle passing down through it by which it could be…

A device which spins round or revolves; a teetotum, a top.

= top, n.2 1.

A child's teetotum.

A two-headed top (resembling an hourglass in shape) used in playing the game described at sense 2.

A small four-sided spinning top, with a Hebrew letter on each face, used in a children's game traditionally played at the Jewish festival of Hanukkah.