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Definition of long tom in English: long tomnoun informal, historical 1A large cannon with a long range. 2A trough for washing gold-bearing deposits. Example sentencesExamples - On the diggings the miners were confronted with a strange new world of ‘bottoms’, ‘second bottoms’, and ‘false bottoms’, of ‘cradles’, ‘long toms’, and winzes’.
Definition of long tom in US English: long tomnoun historical, informal 1A large cannon with a long range. 2A trough for washing gold-bearing deposits. Example sentencesExamples - On the diggings the miners were confronted with a strange new world of ‘bottoms’, ‘second bottoms’, and ‘false bottoms’, of ‘cradles’, ‘long toms’, and winzes’.
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