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  • township
    [OED, in US and Canada, a division of a county for administrative purposes) n. the commercial area of a town.
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  • town
    [OED, a (small) group or cluster of dwellings or buildings, now dialect; Brit. dial. North town the people of a
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  • tow
    [OED, the act of pulling] n. a lift by vehicle, especially a ride on the handle-bar, cross-bar, or back of
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  • trash
    v. 1. [DJE; cf. Gul. t'rash thresh (Gonzales 1922.334); cf. OED trash to free from refuse (quota. from Car., Australia)
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  • trash (2)
    n. [cf. US dial. South thrash an eruption of the mouth WEA; from OED thrush idem] n. thrush, a mouth
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  • trash (1)
     n. [Car.; OED, unusable part of sugar cane after juice has been expressed] the part of a plant left over
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  • trap
    [etym. uncertain, but cf . DHS trap go-between employed by a pickpocket and a whore working together] n. a boy
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  • tourist tree
    n. 1. [from its red, peeling bark, likened to the sunburnt skin of a tourist] the gum-elemi tree, Bursera semiruba:
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  • tother
    /tóda/ [cf. tara idem in Krio (KED), Belize (Dayley), Gul. (Gonzales 1922:331); cf. US Black the tother creeters (Backus 1898:285);
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  • tote news
    [cf. TOTE 1 and NEWS] phr. to spread gossip. cf. TAKE NEWS <Eleu., Mayag.>
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