▪ I. tippler1
(ˈtɪplə(r))
Forms: 4–5 tipeler, 5 -ar, tippelar, -ilar, typuler, 5–8 tipler, 6 typpler, typlar, 6–7 -er, 6– tippler.
[In form and in sense the agent-noun in -er from tipple v.1, but actually known 150 years earlier than the vb., and prob. a century earlier than tippling ppl. a., so that the exact nature of the relationship of these words is uncertain: see tipple v.1]
† 1. A retailer of ale and other intoxicating liquor; a tapster; a tavern-keeper. Obs.
| 1396 Nottingham Rec. I. 314 Johannes Jolivet et Johannes Smyth sunt communes tipelers, et vendunt infra domos suas cum discis et ciphis, contra Assisum. c 1420 Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 359 Adam Sharp bras' tipelar, Alicia Mut tipelar, Joh'es Hunter tipelar. [So many instances 1424–5, etc.] 1478 Nottingham Rec. II. 298 Fines pro licentia merchandizandi Alicia Bult, tipler..iiij d. 1530 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford (1880) 80 In-holders, and typlers w{supt}in the Towne of Oxford. 1552 Huloet, Typpler or vitayler, stabularius. 1564 in Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., Var. Coll. IV. 224 That the bruers or typlars shall not sell any bere or ale above the prices above set. 1642 Ord. & Declar. Lords & Com. Lords Day 6 That expresse charge be given to every keeper of any Taverne, Inne, Cooks shop, Tobacco-house, Ale-house, or any other Tipler or Victualler. |
2. One who tipples; a habitual drinker of intoxicating liquor (implying more or less excess, but usually short of positive drunkenness).
| 1580 Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Vn bon Biberon, a bibber, a tippler. 1622 Massinger & Dekker Virg. Martyr ii. i, Bacchus,..grand patron of rob-pots, upsie-freesie tiplers, and super-naculum takers. 1738 Gentl. Mag. VIII. 527/1 Which might be apply'd to much higher People, than poor Ale-house Tiplers. 1829 Lytton Devereux ii. v, The women love not an early tippler. 1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 724 The moist palm of the habitual tippler is familiar to every one. |
▪ II. ˈtippler2 dial.
[f. tipple v.2 + -er1.]
One who binds up hay in tipples: see tipple n.2
| 1812 [see tipple v.2]. |
▪ III. ˈtippler3
[f. tipple v.3 + -er1.]
One who or that which tips or turns over: spec.
1. A frame or cage into which a wagon, truck, or tub is run, and which is then revolved so as to invert the wagon and discharge its contents.
| 1831 J. Holland Manuf. Metal I. 46 Instead of the old corve and water bucket, an iron box, mounted on wheels, and called a tippler, and somewhat resembling in shape a common coal skip is made to travel completely round. 1891 Kipling City Dreadf. Nt. 83 The tub is run out into a ‘tippler’ and discharges itself into a coal-truck. 1911 Encycl. Brit. VI. 591 The tub..is run into a ‘tippler’, a cage turning about a horizontal axis, which discharges the load..and brings the tub back to the original position. |
2. A variety of tumbler pigeon: see quot. 1879.
| 1847–78 Halliwell, Tippler, a tumbler; hence, when they talk of a tumbler pigeon, you hear them say, ‘What a tippler he is!’ 1879 L. Wright Pigeon Keeper x. 128 [Tipplers throw only one such] backward somersault in the air at a time... Tumblers often make two, three, or more backward revolutions without stopping. 1885 Bazaar 30 Mar. 1265/1 Tipplers.—4 pairs of Macclesfield tipplers. Price 4/– per pair. |