Sentence examples for teetotum from inspiring English sources
noun
A toy (spinning top) similar to a dreidel.
The hexagonal teetotum (known to the ancient Greeks and Romans), marked distinctively on each on its six sides, has at times been used in place of dice.
Twirl the teetotum and move your counter around the board, collecting points by landing on any of the eight point-value squares.
There's no strategy, just dutiful to-ing and fro-ing, in abject obedience to the Rules of the Game and the spin of the teetotum, a numbered, six-sided top used in place of dice, which many nineteenth-century Americans shunned as immoral.
In the Mansion of Happiness, landing on TRUTH — which you can't avoid, if a spin of the teetotum sends you there — advances you six squares; in the Checkered Game of Life, Truth exists, and you can choose to seek it out, but it has no value.
In the Mansion of Happiness, landing on TRUTH which you can't avoid, if a spin of the teetotum sends you there advances you six squares; in the Checkered Game of Life, Truth exists, and you can choose to seek it out, but it has no value.
