tom

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The male of various animals, especially a male cat or turkey.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. An abbreviation of tome (volume).
2. n. A familiar form of common Christian name Thomas. Used, like the name Jack, as a generic name for a man or a fellow, implying some degree of slight or contempt: as, a tom- fool; Tom o' Bedlam.
3. n. Used, like jack, attributively or in composition with the name of an animal, a male: as, a tom-cat; hence, as a noun, a male; specifically, a male cat.
4. n. The knave of trumps at gleek.
5. n. A close-stool.
6. n. A machine formerly used in gold-washing, first in the southern Atlantic States, and later in California, where, however, it was soon superseded by the sluice. It is a trough set in an inclined position, about 20 inches wide at the upper and 30 at the lower end, near which for a short distance the wooden bottom is replaced by one of perforated sheet-iron, the holes being about an inch in diameter. Through these holes the finer gravel and sand with the gold pass into a somewhat wider flat box with riffles, on which the precious metal is caught by the help of the current and the necessary amount of stirring with the shovel. The tom is something like the “rocker,” except that it is longer, and has no rocking motion. Both are very rough and cheap machinery; and most of the stuff originally worked by their aid has been washed over again, and sometimes a great number of times.
7. n. Same as def. 5, above.
8. n. A kind of large pitcher or water-can in use in England in the early part of the nineteenth century.
9. n. A Middle English form of toom.

Wiktionary

1. n. The male of the domesticated cat.
2. n. The male of the turkey.
3. n. The male of certain other animals.
4. n. UK, slang A prostitute.
5. n. music A type of drum.
6. n. obsolete The jack of trumps in the card game gleek.
7. n. UK A tomato (the fruit).
8. n. Cockney rhyming slang jewellery

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. obsolete The knave of trumps at gleek.
2. n. A familiar contraction of Thomas, a proper name of a man.
3. n. The male of certain animals; -- often used adjectively or in composition

WordNet 3.0

1. n. (ethnic slur) offensive and derogatory name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites
2. n. male turkey
3. n. male cat