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tô - taw; boy's marble with which the player shoots, named:- potties; stæanies, flinties, glassies allies - of white marble blood-allies - streaked with red  bobber - large marble too big to shoot with the thumb, which was pitched or bowled sandy - inferior kind of marble scrud or scrood - inferior and mis-shapen marble   pod (verb) - to lunge the hand forward when shooting marbles (variation of poat)

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