Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An alley; a large playing-marble. Sometimes written alley-tor, as vulgarly pronounced.
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Examples
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"You little fool," said I between my teeth, "do you think you can play alley-taw and cat's-cradle with a man like that?"
The Hidden Children 1899
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