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Example sentences for "teetotum"

Lexicographically close words:
teetotalers; teetotalism; teetotaller; teetotallers; teetotally; tegit; tegmen; tegument; tegumentary; tein
  1. Why, the time I had this 'ere teetotum mark pricked into my biceps.

  2. There was a game of teetotum played between a sergeant of dragoons, who had retired upon his well-earned pension, and a baker, who happened likewise to be the renter of a small patch of land adjoining the village.

  3. I always introduce the teetotum when I want to be merry.

  4. Mount the system on a vertical axis, and spin it like a teetotum as fast as it will stand without flying to pieces.

  5. The upper collar is elastic, so as to allow for a steadying teetotum action at high speeds.

  6. We watched him spin round like a teetotum and kenned that he was bye with it.

  7. Tam's a humorist and great on Robert Burns, but he hasna the balance o' a dwinin' teetotum .

  8. The talk crackled merrily for awhile, and when it flagged a small tray bearing a set of little ninepins which were to be knocked down by a teetotum was placed on the table.

  9. 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.

  10. When he was not a teetotum he was a windmill.

  11. Every one appears to patronize the contrivance, and you constantly hear the click of the teetotum along the beach.

  12. Mrs Philpot, enacting her part as the teetotum Sally of the night, besought the ladies to go home, and leave the gentlemen to sleep where they were--i.


  13. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "teetotum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.