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

I think you call it the high toby," said Harry delicately and began to sing to the tune of a catch: "Oh, three merry men, three merry men, three highwaymen were we.

From The Highwayman by Bailey, H. C. (Henry Christopher)

It suited her exactly sitting there in her little striped dressing-gown with its "toby" frill.

From Pointed Roofs Pilgrimage, Volume 1 by Richardson, Dorothy Miller

We may also compare toby jug and demi-john.

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest