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TAWK-sin
noun
an alarm; a warning
1881Picturesque Quebec Champlain, in his deposition, sworn to, on the 9th Nov. 1629, in London, before the Right Worshipful Sir Henry Martin, Knight, Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, describes minutely, the armament and belongings of Fort St. Louis, on the 9th August 1629, when he surrendered it to the Kirkes: cannon such as they were, and ammunition he seems to have had in abundance, without forgetting what he styles 'the murderers with their double boxes or charges,' a not excessively deadly kind of mitrailleuse or Gatling gun, we should imagine; the Fort also contained a smith's forge, carpenter's tools, machinery for a windmill, and a handmill to grind corn, a brass bell—probably to sound the tocsin, or alarm, at the approach of the marauding savages of Stadacona, the array of muskets—(thirteen complete)—is not formidable.1919The Further Adventures of Jimmie DaleThe Tocsin! Marie LaSalle to the world, she was always, and always would be, the Tocsin to him. Gone ! A hand unclenched and passed heavily across his eyes and flirted the hair back from his forehead.2004The Suffering of Being KafkaMy grandmother fixated Dinah with a tocsin look.Labels: Frank L. Packard, James Macpherson Le Moine, Sam Vaknin
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