Tippler

Quick meaning: Tippler is a noun meaning A habitual drinker; a bibber.

Meaning

A habitual drinker; a bibber.

More Meanings

1. A breed of domestic pigeon bred to participate in endurance competitions.
2. (mining) One who works at a tipple.
3. (UK, railroad) An open wagon with a tipping trough, unloaded by being inverted (used for bulk cargo, especially minerals). A minecart, a lorry.
4. Alternative form of tipple, a revolving frame or cage in which a truck or wagon is inverted to discharge its load.
5. (obsolete) A seller of alcoholic liquors; keeper of a tippling-house or tavern.

Example Sentences

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

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

[…]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),

A shaft runround was made to conduct the empties from the tippler to the empty side of the shaft where they would rejoin the old circuit.

Word Forms

• tipplers

Synonyms for tippler

Depending on context, synonyms include bibber.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tavernman, bibber, tippee, trinketer, tipper, maltworm.

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