tipplers

Noun

tippler (plural tipplers)

1. (obsolete) A seller of alcoholic liquors; keeper of a tippling-house or tavern.
   • It is decrede that no tippler shall allow any unlawful games in his howse.1567, regulation, quoted in 1894, William John Monk, History of Witney, page 111
2. A habitual drinker; a bibber.
   • […]they had picked up two fellows in that day’s march, one of which, he said, was as fine a man as ever he saw (meaning the tippler),1749, Henry Fielding, chapter XI, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VII

   Synonyms:

   bibber

3. A breed of domestic pigeon bred to participate in endurance competitions.
4. (UK, railroad) An open wagon with a tipping trough, unloaded by being inverted (used for bulk cargo, especially minerals). A minecart, a lorry.
   • Ackers was working as a tippler operator. His mate, L. Beveridge, saw that Ackers had tipped a full skip and Beveridge allowed another full skip to gravitate to Acker's tippler.1955, New South Wales. Department of Mines, Report of the Department of Mines, New South Wales, page 44
5. One who works at a tipple.