How To Use Teetotum In A Sentence
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Maurice Mair seemed to spin like a teetotum and pitch upon his face like a ninepin.
The Complete Father Brown
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In England and Ireland, the game of totum or teetotum, first mentioned in approximately 1500, was especially popular at Christmastime.
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Each player places a coin in the pot and then take turns spinning the teetotum following the instructions when the teetotum stops spinning.
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To reinforce this, the games were played with teetotums, rather than dice which were associated with gambling.
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While heaping these compliments on Mr Flintwinch, he rolled him about with a hand on each of his shoulders, until the staggerings of that gentleman, who under the circumstances was dryer and more twisted than ever, were like those of a teetotum nearly spent.
Little Dorrit
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However, variations of the game were invented when teetotums developed a body in the shape of a cube.
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Maurice Mair seemed to spin like a teetotum and pitch upon his face like a ninepin.
The Complete Father Brown
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I had seen a set of models of the regular polyhedra in my High School trig class, and decided that a “12-sided teetotum” must be the 12-sdied thingy (a regular dodecahedron) I had seen in the set.
The Braunstein Game « Isegoria
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A round teetotum revolving on its point represents the sky turning on its axis, the two points of the teetotum are the two poles; the child will be delighted to find one of them, and I show him the tail of the Little bear.
Emile
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A six-sided teetotum or die and a playing piece of a different color for each player, are also needed.
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Not that I bear him a grudge, much, for he was a jolly little teetotum, bursting with good intentions, and you may say it wasn't his fault that they paved my road to Hell - which lay at the bottom of a salt-mine, and it's only by the grace of God that I ain't there yet, entombed in everlasting rock.
Watershed
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I had seen a set of models of the regular polyhedra in my High School trig class, and decided that a “12-sided teetotum” must be the 12-sdied thingy (a regular dodecahedron) I had seen in the set.
The Braunstein Game « Isegoria
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I had seen a set of models of the regular polyhedra in my High School trig class, and decided that a “12-sided teetotum” must be the 12-sdied thingy (a regular dodecahedron) I had seen in the set.
The Braunstein Game « Isegoria
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But, all of a sudden, somebody shut off the steam below, and the hole was left empty in an instant: and then down rushed the water into the hole, in such a whirlpool that the bogy spun round and round as fast as a teetotum.
The Water Babies
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The Victorians believed that children should not play with dice because they were associated with gambling so instead they used teetotums, numbered tops, to determine the number of moves.
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Dominoes, playing cards, counters and teetotums were all used to play games in the 19th century but with adults more so than with children.
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Another guest describes a patient who thought he was a spinning top, or teetotum, and liked to spin around, at which the guest prepares to demonstrate before being interrupted by another table guest who whispers into his ear.
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As yet, since I came to full-grown power, I had never met any one whom I could not play teetotum with: but now at last I had found a man whose strength was not to be laughed at.
Lorna Doone
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A teetotum is essentially a stick with flat sides and a round stick through the middle.
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Back in 1965, I read the rules to a game published in 1880 that said one could use a “12-sided teetotum” instead of a 6-sided die, for resolving odds of 6: 1, 7: 1 etc up to 11: 1, but did not explain what a teetotum was or how to make one.
The Braunstein Game « Isegoria
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Another guest describes a patient who thought he was a spinning top, or teetotum, and liked to spin around, at which the guest prepares to demonstrate before being interrupted by another table guest who whispers into his ear.
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The five days needed to reach it after it first appeared on the horizon had been fraught with danger: a dozen rapids, violent eddies that whirled the Explorer around “like a teetotum,” interspersed with innumerable reaches through which the boat had to be towed by a dozen men hauling upon fraying ropes or by a battered skiff with splintered oars.
Colossus
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A 'the time we lay there it lowped and flang and capered and span like a teetotum, and whiles we could hear it skelloch as it span.
David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.
