Tumbler

Quick meaning: Tumbler is a noun meaning A rotating device for smoothing and polishing rough objects, placed inside it, on relatively small parts.

Meaning

A rotating device for smoothing and polishing rough objects, placed inside it, on relatively small parts.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

"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.

Word Forms

• tumblers

Synonyms for tumbler

Depending on context, synonyms include acrobat, mixer, roller.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include roller, tumble, gorge, dryer, throat, glass.

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