tippler

Meaning

Noun

• A seller of alcoholic liquors; keeper of a tippling-house.
• A habitual drinker; a bibber.
• A breed of domestic pigeon bred to participate in endurance competitions.
• An open wagon with a tipping trough, unloaded by being inverted (used for bulk cargo, especially minerals). A mine car, a lorry.
• One who works at a tipple.
• Alternative of tipple, a revolving frame or cage in which a truck or wagon is inverted to discharge its load.

Origin

• tipple + -er. “Seller” sense from 1396; “drinker” sense from 1580.