toby

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The single collection also included a glass bust, a Coalport vase featuring Churchill's ancestral home of Blenheim Palace and Royal Doulton toby jugs.

From BBC • Aug. 11, 2022

Photograph: toby farrow @ farrows creative Who are they?

From The Guardian • Aug. 11, 2011

The toby is now a queer game; to rob on the highway is now a bad mode of acting.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Grose, Francis

On the high toby splice flash the muzzle   In spite of each gallows old scout; If you at the spellken can't hustle   You'll be hobbled in making a clout.

From Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] by Farmer, John Stephen

But afterwards young Sam had his reward; the library, a toby, long before he was old enough to smoke, and his grandfather reading aloud in a wonderful voice, deep, sonorous, flexible—Shakespeare, Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher.

From The Awakening of Helena Richie by Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell