Tippler

//ˈtɪplə// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A seller of alcoholic liquors; keeper of a tippling-house or tavern. obsolete

    "It is decrede that no tippler shall allow any unlawful games in his howse."

  2. 2
    someone who drinks liquor repeatedly in small quantities wordnet
  3. 3
    A habitual drinker; a bibber.

    "[…]they had picked up two fellows in that day’s march, one of which, he said, was as fine a man as ever he saw (meaning the tippler),"

  4. 4
    A breed of domestic pigeon bred to participate in endurance competitions.
  5. 5
    An open wagon with a tipping trough, unloaded by being inverted (used for bulk cargo, especially minerals). A minecart, a lorry. UK

    "Ackers was working as a tippler operator. His mate, L. Beveridge, saw that Ackers had tipped a full skip and Beveridge allowed another full skip to gravitate to Acker's tippler."

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  1. 6
    One who works at a tipple.
  2. 7
    Alternative form of tipple, a revolving frame or cage in which a truck or wagon is inverted to discharge its load. alt-of, alternative

    "Unloading is by tipplers on to a moving conveyor at the power station, which naturally involves uncoupling individual wagons."

Etymology

From tipple + -er (“agent”). “Seller” sense from 1396; “drinker” sense from 1580.

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