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Tippler
//ˈtɪplə// noun
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Noun
- 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 someone who drinks liquor repeatedly in small quantities wordnet
- 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 A breed of domestic pigeon bred to participate in endurance competitions.
- 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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- 6 One who works at a tipple.
- 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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