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  • tote
    [Atlantic; cf. Kongo tota to pick up, kimbundu tuta to carry (Turner 1949:203) but also Anglo-Saxon totian to lift (Hancock
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  • tosevening
    /tasíyvnin/; tosmorning /tasmóhnin/ [probably from a blending of this /dis/ and to-as in tomorrow, tonight, Brit. dial. to-year this year
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  • toreckly
    /tarékli/ [Bajan (Collymore); also Brit. dial. North, West EDD, US dial. South (ADD), Black (ESEA); from directly] adv. in a
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  • torch
    n. 1. also torch light [W Car.] a lamp made from a bottle filled with kerosene, with a rag
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  • top tree
    [cf. TOP 1] n. a kind of palm tree: 1940 The palmetto palm (sometimes called the "top tree") (Dupuch 5).
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  • top string
    [cf. TOP 2 STRING] n. a portion stripped from the leaf of the palmetto for use as a cord or
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  • top berry
    [cf. TOP 1; from its berry-like fruit] n. a kind of palmetto, Coccothrinax sp. = BOAR TOP, THATCHBERRY <Black>
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  • top
    [cf. Cayman tops thatch palm leaves (Kohlman 1969:26); from the use in plaiting of their folded fronds growing from the
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  • tooths
    /tuwts/ [by "correction" of TEETH] n. sing. or pl. tooth: 1966 A ivory tooths (Crowley 115). <Black>
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  • toothache tree
    [cf. Gul. teethache tree prickly ash (Writers' Program 1940:62); OED different sp.; from the use of an infusion made from
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