Tommy

['tɑmi]

Definition

(n.) Bread, -- generally a penny roll; the supply of food carried by workmen as their daily allowance.

(n.) A truck, or barter; the exchange of labor for goods, not money.

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Definition

n. a penny roll bread provisions: the system of giving food as part wages.—v.t. to oppress by the tommy or truck-system.—ns. Tomm′y-shop a truck-shop; Tom′-nod′dy the puffin or sea-parrot: a fool.—Tommy Atkins or Tomm′y a generic name for the English private soldier.—Soft tommy soft bread as opposed to hard tack or sea-biscuit.

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