tumbler

IPA: tˈʌmbɫɝ

(archaic) One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body.
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.
A rotating device for smoothing and polishing rough objects, placed inside it, on relatively small parts.
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.
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.
A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight.
A beverage cup, typically made of stainless steel, that is broad at the top and narrow at the bottom commonly used in India.
Something that causes (something else) to tumble.
(obsolete) A dog of a breed that tumbles when pursuing game, formerly used in hunting rabbits.
(UK, Scotland, dialect, obsolete) A kind of cart; a tumbril.
The pupa of a mosquito.
One of a set of levers from which the heddles hang in some looms.
(obsolete) A porpoise.
(cryptocurrencies) A service that mixes potentially identifiable or 'tainted' cryptocurrency funds with others, so as to obscure the audit trail; used for money laundering.

Examples of "tumbler" in Sentences

A Persian despises a wine-glass; a tumbler is his measure.
Between it and the tumbler was a hyphen of wet blisters: droplets of spilled booze.
I might break a tumbler to be sure, but I should have the full enjoyment of it while it lasted.
Whiskey or rum taken unmixed from a tumbler is a knock-down blow to temperance, but the little thimbleful of brandy, or Chartreuse, or
Now if your tumbler was a hundred or a thousand times as large, the air would prevent the water from coming in, just as it does in this instance.
You may now see the cluster, and may not; but they will spread out in marching, and give a good chance to see her majesty, when a tumbler is the most convenient thing to set over her.
We see this exemplified in England, where the common tumbler, which is valued only for its flight, does not differ much from its parent-form, the Eastern tumbler; whereas the short-faced tumbler has been prodigiously modified, from being valued, not for its flight, but for other qualities.