tommy
Kelime Anlamı :

1. somun anahtarı.
2. İngiliz askeri.
3. boru anahtarı kolu.
4. (isim) İngiliz askeri, mehmetçik (İng.), iki lokma ekmek, boru anahtarı kolu, somun anahtarı.
5. iki lokma ekmek.
6. mehmetçik (İng.).
7. ıngiliz askeri.
8. dili bir somun veya parça ekmek.
9. İngiliz ordusunda er.
Sahne Örnekleri :
Tanımlar :
1. chiefly british A british soldier.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
1. bread, generally a penny roll; the supply of food carried by workmen as their daily allowance
2. A truck, or barter; the exchange of labour for goods instead of money.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
1. bread, -- generally a penny roll; the supply of food carried by workmen as their daily allowance.
2. A truck, or barter; the exchange of labor for goods, not money.
3. same as tommy Atkins; -- a shortened form.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
1. to enforce the tommy or truck system on; oppress or defraud by the tommy system.
2. [capitalized] short for tommy Atkins,' a nickname for the british private soldier.
3. originally, a penny roll; hence, bread; provisions; especially, goods given to a workman in lieu of wages.
4. A tommy-shop.
5. the system of paying workmen in goods in place of money; the truck system.
6. A simple fellow.
7. A tom-cat.
8. A small round lever used to tighten round-headed screw-bolts that are perforated for this purpose.
9. the puffin or sea-parrot, Fratercula arctica. see cut under puffin.
10. hence— A species of soft solder used in the jewelers' trade.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia