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titty(1) | Sister [Thomas Wilson, Pitmans Pay and other poems]
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To-morn | Tomorrow
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togs¹ | Clothes, especially a coat; any outer garment [OED]
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toll_man¹ | Keeper of a toll gate. Usually on a turnpike [CPB]
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Tommy(1) | The system of paying wages in the form of notes or tokens that could be exchanged only in “Tommy shops”; i.e. stores run by the employers and which habitually charged inflated prices. [CPB]
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took the shine | Surpassed, outshone [OED]
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toothful(1) | smallest amount [CPB]
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Topper(1) | A cigar-stump or cigarette-end; also, the remains of tobacco in a pipe-bowl. (London)
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Topsy Turvey | Topsy Turvey: With the top where the bottom should be; in or into an inverted position; upside down, bottom upwards; also less definitely, In or into the position of being toppled over, overturned, overthrown, or upset; right over. [OED]
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top¹ | 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 pulling of a string wound round it; the common whip- or whipping-top is kept spinning by lashing it with a whip. [OED
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Tories | From 1830, the Conservative Party or its members.
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tories¹ | The Tories were a politcal group which evolved into the Conservative Party. References: |
toth¹ | To the (lancashire dialec0 [ Graeme Garvey, of the Yorkshire Dialect Society, personal communication]
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touter¹ | One who touts or canvasses for customers or clients; The OED quotes William Thackeray in Wanderings Fat Contributor (1844) "Touters were about seizing upon the passengers and recommending their hotels."
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Tower of Babble |
Tower of Babel
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towmond(1) | A twelvemonth, a year, the period of a year [Dict. Scots. Lang]
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Towzy(1) | Tousie: Especially of the hair: dishevelled, shaggy, unkempt, rough, tangled [Dict. Scots. Lang]
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tow¹ | rope
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Traffic table |
The traffic that the railway line is expected to carry
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tram-lines | The rails used for trams
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