teetotum

A fellow must have some reward for making a teetotum of himself.

Father Brown started and spun half round like an absurd teetotum.

Others trace the dreidel itself to the children's top game Teetotum.

A teetotum (or T-totum) is a form of gambling spinning top.

In the pocket were the rules, implements, and teetotum.

The Labour Members also believe; and tremble like a falling teetotum.

He was turning like a teetotum, looking in all directions, and sometimes peering into the darkness of the hall with his little bloodshot eyes.

The teetotum survives today as dreidel, a Jewish game played on Hanukkah.

Their 'TeeToTum ground' was also used as an amenity for sporting and social events.

Its teetotum was an ivory dowel inserted in an octagonal ivory plate.

A teetotum was no longer needed as a metal pointer could be attached to a lithographed card using a pop rivet.

The dreidel is a Jewish variant on the teetotum, gambling toy found in many European cultures.

Bradley's game did not include dice, instead using a teetotum, a six-sided top (dice were considered too similar to gambling).

The original 1860 version of The Game of Life used a teetotum in order to avoid the die's association with gambling.

A spinner or a top-like teetotum, for instance, was utilized in children's board games rather than dice, which were then associated with Satan and gambling.

'Hackney TeeToTum' were an amateur cricket team that played at Stamford Hill in the late 19th century.

The Checkered Game of Life followed a structure similar to its American and British predecessors, with players spinning a teetotum to advance to corresponding squares.

To reach The Mansion of Happiness, the player spins a teetotum and races around a sixty-six space spiral track depicting various virtues and vices.

I had a notion of a man perpetually spinning round on one foot like a teetotum in the effort to find that world behind his back which continually fled from him.

The Hackney TeeToTum cricket team played there, and it also hosted athletics events such as the professional '25 Mile World Championships'.

The toy is mentioned in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, when the Sheep asks "Are you a child or a Teetotum?"

The only two who did not complete the course were Robinson, who refused and did not continue and Teetotum, who was pulled up during the second circuit.

Hence the dreydl, that four-sided medieval teetotum carrying the initials of the words A Great Miracle Happened There - there in Jerusalem, long ago.

They echo without him, within him: They thrill through his whiskers and beard: Like a teetotum seeming to spin him, With sneers never hitherto sneered.

Jewish historical sources trace this custom's origin to the 1700's, when children, following the practice of the adults, began to play spinning the dreidel or teetotum as one way of making holiday joy.