To enforce the tommy or truck system on; oppress or defraud by the tommy system.
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Originally, a penny roll; hence, bread; provisions; especially, goods given to a workman in lieu of wages.
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A tommy-shop.
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The system of paying workmen in goods in place of money; the truck system.
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A simple fellow.
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A tom-cat.
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A small round lever used to tighten round-headed screw-bolts that are perforated for this purpose.
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The puffin or sea-parrot, Fratercula arctica. See cut under puffin.
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Hence— A species of soft solder used in the jewelers' trade.
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[capitalized] Short for Tommy Atkins,' a nickname for the British private soldier.