ˈtippling-house Obs. exc. Hist.
[f. tippling vbl. n.1 + house n.]
A house where intoxicating liquor is sold and drunk; an ale-house, a tavern.
| 1547 Boorde Introd. Knowl. xxxi. (1870) 200 The best fare is in prestes houses, for they do kepe typlynge houses. 1551–2 Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI, c. 25 Preamble, Comen Ale⁓houses and other houses called Tiplinge houses. 1639 Laud Wks. (1853) V. 239 Our university of Oxford had heretofore the government and correction of all manner of ale-house-keepers, ale-houses, and other tippling-houses. 1757 Washington Let. Writ. 1889 I. 502 Instances of the villainous Behavior of those Tippling-House-keepers. 1817 Scott Let. to Morritt 11 Aug., in Lockhart, There is a terrible evil in England to which we are strangers,—the number, to-wit, of tippling houses, where the labourer..spends the overplus of his earnings. 1877 Burroughs Taxation 393 ‘To regulate and restrain tippling houses’, confers no power to tax them. |