# tumbler
## English
### Etymology

From tumble +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* (US) IPA: /ˈtʌmblɚ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌmblə(ɹ)
* Homophone: Tumblr

### Noun

tumbler (plural tumblers)
* (archaic) One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body.
    Synonym: acrobat
** 1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC:[…] the tricks of tumblers, funambuloes, baladines […]
** 1848 June 28, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Before the Curtain”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], →OCLC, page vii:[…] and yokels looking up at the tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind.
* 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.
** 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:I poured out some whisky into a tumbler, and gave it to him.
** 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 46”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:"You don't think it's too early?" said the Captain. "You and your liver must decide that between you," I replied. "I'm practically a teetotaller," he said, as he poured himself out a good half-tumbler of Canadian Club.
* 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.
    Hyponym: yo tumbler
* (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.
* (entomology) 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.
    Synonym: mixer
** 2021 April 29, Kim Lyons, “Feds arrest founder of bitcoin ‘mixer’ they say laundered $335 million over ten years”, in The Verge‎:The Department of Justice said it has arrested a Russian-Swedish national who allegedly operated a long-running cryptocurrency laundering site. According to a news release from the DOJ, Roman Sterlingov ran Bitcoin Fog, a cryptocurrency tumbler or “mixer”— which hides a cryptocurrency’s source by mixing it with other funds.

#### Hyponyms

* (glass): lowball, lowball glass, highball, highballer, highball glass, whiskey glass, on-the-rocks glass, rocks glass, old-fashioned glass

#### Derived terms

* compost tumbler
* rebound-tumbler
* rebound tumbler
* tumbler dryer
* tumbler tank
* tumbler-washer

#### Related terms

* tumble

#### Translations

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#### See also

* glass
* highball
* pigeon

### Anagrams

* Trumble, tumbrel