单词 | town-top |
释义 | > as lemmastown-top ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > top > [noun] > whipping-top > for public use parish-topa1616 town-top?1617 ?1617 J. Taylor Jack a Lent sig. C A great discommodity for schoole boyes, through thee want of scourges to whip Gigs and Towne-Tops. 1640 J. Fletcher & J. Shirley Night-walker i. sig. C1v He..dances like a Towne top: and reeles and hobbles. 1670 J. Evelyn Sylva (ed. 2) xx. 92 For the Turner, Kyele-pins, great Town-Topps. 1780 W. Blackstone in E. Malone Suppl. Shakespeare's Plays I. 139 ‘To sleep like a town-top’, is a proverbial expression. < as lemmas |
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