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TEETOTUM
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TEETOTUM , a See also: form of top, used in various See also: games of chance; the See also: body is of polygonal shape, marked with letters or numbers, which decide the result of the See also: game, according to the See also: side which
See also: Ungulata
Hippopotamus
See also: Pig See also: family (Suidae)
Camel
.
See also: Chevrotain (Tragulidae)
See also: Deer family (Cervidae) Hollow-horned ruminants (See also: Bovidae) See also: Tapir
.
.
See also: Horse (See also: Equidae)
.
See also: Rhinoceros Procavia (Hyrax) See also: Elephant
.
I.0.(o–I).3 1.0.(0—1).3 2.0.3.3
remains uppermost on the fall of the top after spinning
.
See also: Strutt, who was See also: born in 1749, mentions (See also: Sports and Pastimes) the teetotum as used in games when he was a boy
.
It seems that in its earliest form the body was square, marked on the four sides by the letters A
.
(See also: Lat. aufer, take up or away), indicating that the player takes one from the See also: pool, D
.
(Lat. depone, put down), when a See also: fine has to be paid, N
.
(Lat. nihil, nothing), and T
.
(Lat. totum), when the whole pool is taken
.
Other accounts give such letters as P.N.D
.
(dimidium, See also: half), or H. and T. or other combinations of letters
.
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