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Tumbler

//ˈtʌmblɚ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body. archaic

    "[…] the tricks of tumblers, funambuloes, baladines […]"

  2. 2
    pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground wordnet
  3. 3
    A movable obstruction in a lock, consisting of a lever, latch, wheel, slide, or the like, which must be adjusted to a particular position by a key or other means before the bolt can be thrown in locking or unlocking.
  4. 4
    a glass with a flat bottom but no handle or stem; originally had a round bottom wordnet
  5. 5
    A rotating device for smoothing and polishing rough objects, placed inside it, on relatively small parts.
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  1. 6
    a movable obstruction in a lock that must be adjusted to a given position (as by a key) before the bolt can be thrown wordnet
  2. 7
    A piece attached to, or forming part of, the hammer of a gunlock, upon which the mainspring acts and in which are the notches for sear point to enter.
  3. 8
    a gymnast who performs rolls and somersaults and twists etc. wordnet
  4. 9
    A drinking glass that has no stem, foot, or handle — so called because such glasses originally had a pointed or convex base and could not be set down without spilling. This compelled the drinker to finish their measure.

    "I poured out some whisky into a tumbler, and gave it to him."

  5. 10
    A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight.
  6. 11
    A beverage cup, typically made of stainless steel, that is broad at the top and narrow at the bottom commonly used in India.
  7. 12
    Something that causes something else to tumble.
  8. 13
    A dog of a breed that tumbles when pursuing game, formerly used in hunting rabbits. obsolete
  9. 14
    A kind of cart; a tumbril. Scotland, UK, dialectal, obsolete
  10. 15
    The pupa of a mosquito.
  11. 16
    One of a set of levers from which the heddles hang in some looms.
  12. 17
    A porpoise. obsolete
  13. 18
    A service that mixes potentially identifiable or 'tainted' cryptocurrency funds with others, so as to obscure the audit trail; used for money laundering.

    "The Department of Justice said it has arrested a Russian-Swedish national who allegedly operated a long-running cryptocurrency laundering site. According to a news release from the DOJ, Roman Sterlingov ran Bitcoin Fog, a cryptocurrency tumbler or “mixer”— which hides a cryptocurrency’s source by mixing it with other funds."

Etymology

From tumble + -er.

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