tumbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌmblɚ/
rhymes: -ʌmblə(ɹ)
homophone: Tumblr
Forms: form: tumblers
Etymology: From tumble + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] the tricks of tumblers, funambuloes, baladines […]
ref: 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:
text: […] and yokels looking up at the tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind.
ref: 1848 June 28, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Before the Curtain”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], →OCLC, page vii:
synonyms: acrobat
glosses: One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body.
glosses: 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.
glosses: A rotating device for smoothing and polishing rough objects, placed inside it, on relatively small parts.
glosses: 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.
examples: text: I poured out some whisky into a tumbler, and gave it to him.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: "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.
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 46”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
glosses: 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.
glosses: A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight.
glosses: A beverage cup, typically made of stainless steel, that is broad at the top and narrow at the bottom commonly used in India.
glosses: Something that causes something else to tumble.
glosses: A dog of a breed that tumbles when pursuing game, formerly used in hunting rabbits.
glosses: A kind of cart; a tumbril.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The pupa of a mosquito.
glosses: One of a set of levers from which the heddles hang in some looms.
glosses: A porpoise.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2021 April 29, Kim Lyons, “Feds arrest founder of bitcoin ‘mixer’ they say laundered $335 million over ten years”, in The Verge:
topics: business
cryptocurrencies
cryptocurrency
finance
synonyms: mixer
glosses: A service that mixes potentially identifiable or 'tainted' cryptocurrency funds with others, so as to obscure the audit trail; used for money laundering.
Hyponyms: sense: glass
word: lowball
sense: glass
word: lowball glass
sense: glass
word: highball
sense: glass
word: highballer
sense: glass
word: highball glass
sense: glass
word: whiskey glass
sense: glass
word: on-the-rocks glass
sense: glass
word: rocks glass
sense: glass
word: old-fashioned glass
Derived terms: compost tumbler
rebound-tumbler
rebound tumbler
tumbler dryer
tumbler tank
tumbler-washer
Related terms: tumble
glass
highball
pigeon