tippler
IPA: tˈɪpɫɝ
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.]
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Examples of "tippler" in Sentences
- Also known as a crested Tippler.
- It is classified as a tippler pigeon.
- The time flying tippler pigeon sport.
- Known in the UK as a tippler or chaldron wagon.
- Known in the UK as a tippler or chaldron wagon .
- This article is very focused on racing tippler pigeons.
- There is also the option of tippler training with droppers.
- During the summers, he worked as a tippler at the coal mine.
- As to the origin of the Tippler we are at a loss for accurate data.
- That is, tippler clubs are indirectly related to the subject of the article.
- Her aunt had been a tippler, and his habit of keeping whiskey had been the one thing that had given her pause when he asked her to marry him.
- Among the main buildings still standing is the "tippler," where mining cars traveling on a narrow-gauge railroad track would be tipped over, dumping their loads of coal.
- His father, he said, had long since matriculated well beyond his amateur standing as a tavern tippler, and had gone on to become a renowned professional whiskey drinker.
- Mr. Marquis’s The Old Soak, a post-prohibition portrait of a genial old tippler, is perhaps the most vital bit of American humor since Mr. Dooley — some say since Mark Twain.
- He is further down this road, probably about a half mile or so up this road actually at the entrance to the mining facility, to where they call the tippler, which is the processing plant of the mine.
- As an interesting writer is by definition a pond-skipper, a book-dipper, perhaps a tippler and ever an eccentric, it's no surprise to find procrastination only a few letters away from (literary) procreation.
- There's no indication that President Obama is a similar tippler, but I think it just means that the public's impatient, the public is worried, the public is lurching a little bit from side to side and saying, we'll take a chance on you.
- Meanwhile, Lynley, who's been away on compassionate leave following the murder of his wife (in the preceding novel), is summoned back to duty to guide his possible replacement, an attractive divorcee and closet tippler named Isabelle Ardery.
- As always, Annette Bening is glorious -- there's a nervous intelligence that shines through (a quality you wouldn't often single out in American actresses), and in "Kids" Bening gets to strut her comedy skills playing a control freak and tippler.
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