Meaning of Tippler | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A seller of alcoholic liquors; keeper of a tippling-house or tavern.
   obsolete
2. A habitual drinker; a bibber.
3. A breed of domestic pigeon bred to participate in endurance competitions.
4. An open wagon with a tipping trough, unloaded by being inverted (used for bulk cargo, especially minerals). A minecart, a lorry.
   UK
5. One who works at a tipple.

Equivalents

Examples

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

“[...] and that expresse charge be given to every keeper of any Tavern, Inne, Cookshouse, Tobacco-house, Alehouse, or any other tipler or victualler whatsoever within your ward, [...]”

“and a penalty is omposed on the sale or delivery of any ale or beer, except for household use, to any person who sells it as a common tippler or ale-house keeper, unless he has a license in force.”

“[…]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),”

“He had, in truth, drunk very little - not a fourth of the quantity which a systematic tippler could carry to church on a Sunday afternoon without a hitch in his eastings or genuflections[.]”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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