/tee toh"teuhm/ , n.
1. any small top spun with the fingers.
2. a kind of die having four sides, each marked with a different initial letter, spun with the fingers in an old game of chance.
[ 1710-20; earlier T totum, alter. of totum name of toy ( totum, neut. of totus all) by prefixing its initial letter, which appeared on one side of the toy ]