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titty(1)

Sister [Thomas Wilson, Pitmans Pay and other poems]

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To-morn

Tomorrow
[Thomas Wilson - The Pitman's Pay and other poems]

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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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Synonyms - Topsy-Turvey
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.
After 1784 William Pitt the Younger emerged as the leader of a new Tory Party, which broadly represented the interests of the country gentry, the merchant classes, and official administerial groups. [i] The first Conservative government was formed by Sir Robert Peel, whose program, set out in the Tamworth Manifesto (1834), stressed the timely reform of abuses, the necessity of law and order, an orderly system of taxation, and the importance of both landed interests and trade and industry. [ii]

References:
[i] https://www.britannica.com/topic/Whig-Party-England (accessed 23Feb21)
[ii] https://www.britannica.com/topic/Conservative-Party-political-party-United-Kingdom (accessed 23Feb21)

Synonyms - tory¹
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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