tommy

A British soldier.

To enforce the tommy or truck system on; oppress or defraud by the tommy system.

[capitalized] Short for Tommy Atkins,’ a nickname for the British private soldier.

Originally, a penny roll; hence, bread; provisions; especially, goods given to a workman in lieu of wages.

A tommy-shop.

The system of paying workmen in goods in place of money; the truck system.

A simple fellow.

A tom-cat.

A small round lever used to tighten round-headed screw-bolts that are perforated for this purpose.

The puffin or sea-parrot, Fratercula arctica. See cut under puffin.