Definition of Humming top

1. Noun. A top that makes a humming noise as it spins.

Generic synonyms: Spinning Top, Teetotum, Top, Whirligig

Definition of Humming top

1. Noun. A toy with a point, around which it can be made to spin. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Humming Top

hummeler
hummelers
hummelled
hummeller
hummellers
hummels
hummerite
hummers
hummin
humming
humming-bird
humming-birds
humming-top
humming bird's trumpet
humming top
hummingbird
hummingbird moth
hummingbirds
hummings
hummock
hummocked
hummocking
hummocks
hummocky
hummum
hummums
hummus
hummuses
humogen

Literary usage of Humming top

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Sports and Pastimes of American Boys: A Guide and Text-book of Games of by Henry Chadwick (1884)
"... HUMMING-TOP. Humming-tops can be purchased at any toyshop ; they are spun in the following manner: after placing ..."

2. The Irish Penny Journal (1841)
"Why, a humming-top is aaa-humming top," quoth young master, somewhat posed. " It makes a noise this way—hum, hum, hum—for all the world like a droning ..."

3. Cassell's Complete Book of Sports and Pastimes: Being a Compendium of Out by Cassell & Co, Cassell (London) (1896)
"humming top. humming tope are во called from the ... A humming top still more mechanical in iU construction is to bo purchased now at almost any toy-shop ..."

4. The Circulator of useful knowledge, amusement, literature, science and (1825)
"Without the humming-top, the Greeks had never introduced their warrior- loaded hobby ... Without his humming-top, Philip of Mace- don had never quizzed the ..."

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