a small top, usu inscribed with letters and used in games of chance
any small top spun with the fingers
tee1 + Latin totum all, neuter of totus whole; from the letter T inscribed on one side as an abbr of totum all, i.e. ‘take all’. The other letters were A for auferre ‘to take away’, D for deponere ‘to put down’, and N for nihil ‘nothing’