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单词 town-top
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town-top
town-top n. Obsolete = parish-top n. at parish n. Compounds 2.
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > top > [noun] > whipping-top > for public use
parish-topa1616
town-top?1617
?1617 J. Taylor Jack a Lent sig. C A great discommodity for schoole boyes, through thee want of scourges to whip Gigs and Towne-Tops.
1640 J. Fletcher & J. Shirley Night-walker i. sig. C1v He..dances like a Towne top: and reeles and hobbles.
1670 J. Evelyn Sylva (ed. 2) xx. 92 For the Turner, Kyele-pins, great Town-Topps.
1780 W. Blackstone in E. Malone Suppl. Shakespeare's Plays I. 139 ‘To sleep like a town-top’, is a proverbial expression.
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