noun

• (obsolete) A seller of alcoholic liquors; keeper of a tippling-house or tavern.
• A habitual drinker; a bibber.
• A breed of domestic pigeon bred to participate in endurance competitions.
• (UK, railroad) An open wagon with a tipping trough, unloaded by being inverted (used for bulk cargo, especially minerals). A minecart, a lorry.
• (mining) 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. [An area near the entrance of mines which is used to load and unload coal.]