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spinning top

noun

  1. another name for top 2
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

It moved past them at a walking pace, with an odd, irregular bob and swerve like a spinning top.

The spinning top is a beautiful illustration of this principle.

The earth's axis "precesses," however, just as does that of a spinning top.

The latter is but a small piece of iron magnetised; the former is nothing more than a spinning-top.

So Billie picked up the spinning top and put it on the bear's broad, flat paw.

"I'd buy a spinning top, Uncle Wiggily," said the little squirrel boy, very quickly.

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