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 Tool.Toom Tabard [empty jacket]. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Tooley Street.
 
A corruption of St. Olaf—i.e. ’T-olaf, Tolay, Tooly. Similarly, Sise Lane is St. Osyth’s Lane.   1
 


 Tool.Toom Tabard [empty jacket]. 

 
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