tumbler

English

A tumbler (drinking glass, sense 5) filled with milk.

Etymology

From tumble +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtʌmblɚ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ʌmblə(ɹ)
• Homophone: Tumblr

Noun

tumbler (plural tumblers)

1. (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.

2. 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.
3. A rotating device for smoothing and polishing rough objects, placed inside it, on relatively small parts.
4. 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.
6. 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.

7. A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight.
8. A beverage cup, typically made of stainless steel, that is broad at the top and narrow at the bottom commonly used in India.
9. Something that causes something else to tumble.

   Hyponym: yo tumbler

10. (obsolete) A dog of a breed that tumbles when pursuing game, formerly used in hunting rabbits.
11. (UK, Scotland, dialect, obsolete) A kind of cart; a tumbril.
12. The pupa of a mosquito.
13. One of a set of levers from which the heddles hang in some looms.
14. (obsolete) A porpoise.
16. (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^[1]:

      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
• tumbler dryer
• tumbler tank
• tumbler-washer

 

Related terms

• tumble

Translations

acrobat — see acrobat

movable obstruction in lock

• Finnish: haitta (fi)
• Italian: nottolino (it) m, cilindro (it)
• Russian: кулачо́к (ru) m (kulačók)
• Spanish: seguro (es)

part of a gunlock

• Italian: percussore (it) m
• Ottoman Turkish: رزه (reze)

drinking glass without stem

• Ahom: 𑜀𑜨𑜀𑜫 (kok)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 玻璃杯 (zh) (bōlibēi)

• Esperanto: glaso (eo)
• Finnish: juomalasi (fi)
• French: tumbler (fr) m
• German: Trinkglas (de) n, Tumbler m, Glasbecher (de) m
• Greek: ποτήρι (el) n (potíri)
• Gujarati: ટમલર (ṭamlar)
• Hungarian: pohár (hu), vizespohár (hu)
• Italian: bicchiere (it) m
• Japanese: グラス (ja) (gurasu)
• Korean: 글라스 (geullaseu)
• Polish: szklanka (pl) f, kulawka f (with pointed or convex base)
• Portuguese: copo (pt) m
• Russian: стака́н (ru) m (stakán)
• Spanish: vaso de lados rectos m, tumbler m, volatinero m
• Swedish: glas (sv) c, dricksglas (sv) c, tumlare (sv) c
• Taos: bósuną (glass)
• Turkish: bardak (tr)
• Welsh: tymbler m
• Yiddish: קעלישעק m (kelishek)

variety of pigeon

• German: Tümmler m
• Italian: piccione tomboliere m
• Russian: го́лубь-верту́н m (gólubʹ-vertún)

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• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} כוס (kos) f

See also

• glass
• highball
• pigeon

Anagrams

• Trumble, tumbrel