Lexicographical Neighbors of Tooms
Literary usage of Tooms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of the Administration of the Madras Presidency by Madras (Presidency) (1885)
"2 ardha seers = 1 seer. 20 seers = 1 toom. 20 tooms = 1 ... 4 tooms or 13 seers =
1 nowt = 1040 ... 600 tooms of 3i seers each = 1 garce = 1950 ..."
2. Madras High Court Reports: Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Madras by India High Court (Madras, India (1871)
"Having therefore agreed this day in presence of elders, to give you, each year,
from this year, during your whole life, 7 tooms of ..."
3. A Descriptive and Historical Account of the Godavery District in the by Henry Morris (1878)
"The usual nominal shares allowed the cultivator are, of paddy, eight, ten, and
twelve tooms in twenty. The fixed cultivators receive the first proportion. ..."
4. A manual of the Salem district in the presidency of Madras by Henry Le Fanu (1883)
"Thus a local acre of first-class dry, in a first-class village, was supposed to
yield 36 tooms and of wet under a first-class tank HO tooms. ..."
5. Records Relating to the Early History of Boston by Boston (Mass.). Registry Dept, Boston (Mass.). Record Commissioners (1883)
"A Motion Now made Ab* building a Row of tooms in the burying place is continued
to be considered at the next Meeting in March. [361. ..."
6. James K. Polk, a Political Biography by Eugene Irving McCormac (1922)
"tooms, of Georgia, likewise charged the President with insincerity: "I do not
think a war in the least probable. Mr. Polk never dreamed of any other war ..."
7. The Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor: Containing Choice and Characteristic by William Evans Burton (1859)
"Take 'em both to the tooms," ses one, '' and make 'em giv a account of themselves."
With that two or three of 'em cum towards me, and I grabbed my cane in ..."
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