Meaning

(archaic) One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body..

Definitions by Sense

1. (archaic) One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body.
2. 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.
3. A rotating device for smoothing and polishing rough objects, placed inside it, on relatively small parts.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight.
7. A beverage cup, typically made of stainless steel, that is broad at the top and narrow at the bottom commonly used in India.
8. Something that causes something else to tumble.

Example Sentences

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

[…] and yokels looking up at the tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind.

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

"You don't think it's too early?" said the Captain. "You and your liver must decide that between you," I replied. "I'm practically a teetotaller," he said, as he poured himself out a good half-tumbler of Canadian Club.

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.

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