tove

• Yes, there's the de rigeur steampunk clocks and turning cogs and steel scraps and some kind of slithy tove rising up out of the mudflats, covered ankle-deep in water. —  Second Thoughts
• Hendry stopped to have what he called a tove with any likely person he encountered, and, indeed, though he and I often took a walk on Saturdays, I generally lost him before we were clear of the town In a few moments Leeby and I were at home to give Jess the news Whaur's yer father?" —  A Window in Thrums
• I always call him 'the slithy tove.' —  The Lamp in the Desert
• Hendry stopped to have what he called a tove with any likely person he encountered, and, indeed, though he and I often took a walk on —  A Window in Thrums

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