tumbler

IPA: tˈʌmbɫɝ

noun

  • (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.
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Examples of "tumbler" in Sentences

  • She was amazed by tumbler.
  • I bought a tumbler from a cafe.
  • The dancers show tumbler on the street.
  • The gymnasts showed tumbler to audiences.
  • He owns different types of tumblers at home.
  • The tumbler was originally tall and cylindrical.
  • Batman gives chase in the tumbler but is wiped out.
  • The pin tumbler is commonly used in cylinder locks.
  • The Breslauer Tumbler is a breed of domestic pigeon.
  • The tumblers are aligned by a key inserted into the lock.

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