spinning top

another name for top 2 (def. 1)

Words nearby spinning top

He sat passive, but it was the passivity of the spinning-top.

Love's Usuries |Louis Creswicke
I afterwards saw all these monitors covered with indentations like spinning-top moulds or saucers.

Charles Carleton Coffin |William Elliot Griffis, D. D.
The same principle applies to the spinning-top—this toy cannot be made to stand upon its point until set in rapid motion.

The Boy's Playbook of Science |John Henry Pepper
It was a spinning-top—a curious, living top with a pointed cap and earlocks.

Jewish Children |Sholem Naumovich Rabinovich

And there arose to my mind Benny's fritters, and Benny's spinning-top that had cost me all I possessed in the world.

Jewish Children |Sholem Naumovich Rabinovich