toby

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The single collection also included a glass bust, a Coalport vase featuring Churchill's ancestral home of Blenheim Palace and Royal Doulton toby jugs.

From BBC • Aug. 11, 2022

Photograph: toby farrow @ farrows creative Who are they?

From The Guardian • Aug. 11, 2011

But afterwards young Sam had his reward; the library, a toby, long before he was old enough to smoke, and his grandfather reading aloud in a wonderful voice, deep, sonorous, flexible—Shakespeare, Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher.

From The Awakening of Helena Richie by Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell

On the high toby splice flash the muzzle   In spite of each gallows old scout; If you at the spellken can't hustle   You'll be hobbled in making a clout.

From Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] by Farmer, John Stephen

A supposed example of the last named is included in the Page collection at Lynn, and is known as the Napoleon toby.

From Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings by Northend, Mary H.