tippler

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈtɪplə/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A seller of alcoholic liquors; keeper of a tippling-house or tavern. obsolete
    — It is decrede that no tippler shall allow any unlawful games in his howse.
  2. A habitual drinker; a bibber.
    — […]they had picked up two fellows in that day’s march, one of which, he said, was as fine a man as ever he saw (meaning the tippler),
  3. A breed of domestic pigeon bred to participate in endurance competitions.
  4. An open wagon with a tipping trough, unloaded by being inverted (used for bulk cargo, especially minerals). A minecart, a lorry. UK
    — Ackers was working as a tippler operator. His mate, L. Beveridge, saw that Ackers had tipped a full skip and Beveridge allowed another full skip to gravitate to Acker's tippler.
  5. One who works at a tipple.
  6. Alternative form of tipple, a revolving frame or cage in which a truck or wagon is inverted to discharge its load. alt-of,alternative
    — Unloading is by tipplers on to a moving conveyor at the power station, which naturally involves uncoupling individual wagons.

词形变化

tipplers plural

词源

From tipple + -er (“agent”). “Seller” sense from 1396; “drinker” sense from 1580.
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