biblers

Noun (1)

bibler (plural biblers)

1. (archaic) A great drinker; a tippler.
   • Mr. W. H. Cummings defends the character of Purcell from the remarks of Mr. J. F. Crowest, who in his anxiety to prove that wine has always stimulated music, makes Purcell a bibler.1889 August, “Echoes of the Month”, in The Musical Herald and Tonic Sol-fa Reporter, number 8, page 184

Noun (2)

bibler (plural biblers)

1. (archaic, derogatory, slang) A protestant.
   • as the Church-mens policy was great, so they forgot not to foresee a storm, in case Mary should depart without issue, and the Crown come to Elizabeth, who was, as the Germans called them, a Protestant, as the French, a Huguenot, or of the Religion, as the English, a Lollard, a Bibler, a Gospeller...1651, Charles George Cock, English-Law, page 32
2. A student at a boarding school who has the job of reading from the bible during meals.
   • But now I pray you let us hearken to the Scripture, for the bibler is not yet come to Tu autem.1814, Sir John Harington, The Metamorphosis of Ajax, page 86
3. (slang, Winchester College) A flogging of six cuts on the small of the back in which the bible clerk and ostiarius held up the culprit's shirt while a school official administered the flogging.
   • "That's a lie! if you don't tell me where you got these verses this instant, I'll give you a bibler." —A bibler, you must know, reader , has nothing whatever to do with the Holy Scriptures, but is a particularly severe flogging, attended by certain forms to give the punishment more solemnity.1835, John Blakiston, Twenty Years in Retirement - Volume 2, page 238
4. One given to quoting the bible; a bible-thumper.
   • So in respect of this particular opposition, in the ones reiecting, the others vrging of traditions, the sadduces were termed […] Biblers, or Scripturists .1626, Thomas Godwin, Moses and Aaron, page 58

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