tippler
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tippler
- /ˈtɪplə/ UK
Where it comes from
From tipple + -er (“agent”). “Seller” sense from 1396; “drinker” sense from 1580.
noun tipplers
- A seller of alcoholic liquors; keeper of a tippling-house or tavern. It is decrede that no tippler shall allow any unlawful games in his howse.
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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),
Similar: bibber
- A breed of domestic pigeon bred to participate in endurance competitions.
- An open wagon with a tipping trough, unloaded by being inverted (used for bulk cargo, especially minerals). A minecart, a lorry. 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.
- One who works at a tipple.
- Alternative form of tipple, a revolving frame or cage in which a truck or wagon is inverted to discharge its load. Unloading is by tipplers on to a moving conveyor at the power station, which naturally involves uncoupling individual wagons.
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noun habitual drinker
| Română | bețiv, bețivan, drojdier |
|---|---|
| العربية | مُعَاقِر الخَمْر muʕāqir al-ḵamr, شَارِب الخَمْر šārib al-ḵamr |
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title = {tippler},
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