humming top

noun

1. a top that hums as it spins

Example Sentences

Think of that great General Washington on a white horse once playing with a little humming top like yours!

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I guess she never had to give her humming-top to quiet the baby, and had the paint all sucked off.

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Then he took from his pocket a beautiful new humming top, and said, "Here is your birthday present."

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A humming-top on the subject would have been precisely as instructive and convincing.

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A humming-top, whose key had departed, lay side by side with a shuttlecock that had been shorn of half its feathers.

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