tom kin post (tom kin post)

In a grain-mill, the post supporting the pivot-end of the bridge tree. E. H. Knight. tomling (tom'ling), n. [ 6373 Hall i well sets down the word tommy , meaning provisions, as belonging to various dialects. It is now current among the "navvy" cla . Hence we have the tonal 2. [l. c.] The piper gurnard, Trigla lyra, a fish. [Local, Eng.] name of an institution righteously abhorred by political Tom-poker (tom'pō'ker), n . [ Tom1 + poker2 .] economists, the store belonging to an employer where his A bugbear to to frighten children. [Prov. Eng.] workmen must take out part of their earnings in kind, estompon (tom'pon), n. Same as tompion1 , 2. pecially in tommy or food, whence the name of tommy- tom-pudding (tom'pud'ing), n. [ tom1 + shop Mac mill an's Mag. ( Imp . Dict .) pudding .] The little grebe, or dabchick. [Prov. 2. A tommy-shop.-3. The system of paying Eng. and Irish.] workmen in goods in place of money; the truck IMG:content-0547.jpg:[graphic] system. 4. A simple fellow. Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.]-5. A tom-cat. [Colloq.] -6. A small round lever used to tighten round-headed screw bolts that are perforated for this purpose.-7. The puffin or sea-parrot, Fratercula arctic a. See cut under puffin. [Local, Eng.] - Soft tommy. (a) Soft and newly baked bread, as opposed to hardtack or sea-biscuit. [Slang.] It is placed in antithesis to soft and new bread, what English sailors call soft tommy. De Quincey, Roman Meals. (Davies.) Hence (b) A species of soft solder used in the jewelers' trade. G. E. Gee , Goldsmith's Handbook, p. 137. tommy (tom'i), v . t .; pret. and pp. tommied , ppr. tommying . [ tommy , n.] To enforce the tommy or truck system on; oppre or defraud by the tommy system. [Slang, Eng.] The fact is, we are tommied to death. Disraeli , Sybil, iii. 1.