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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…
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a tall humming top.
humming-top1819
Sometimes hyphenated with its noun, forming a quasi-compound denoting a particular kind of the thing in question, as humming-bee, humming-top, humming…