tumblern.
/ˈtʌmblə/, U.S. /ˈtəmb(ə)lər/ 1. One who performs feats of agility and strength, somersaults, leaps, and gymnastics; an acrobat.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > acrobatic performance > [noun] > acrobat
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tumbesterc1386
tumblesterc1386
playera1425
speeler1496
balancer?1518
petaurist1656
tumbling lass1687
balance-master1753
balance-mistress1801
jerry-come-tumble1823
acrobat1827
evolutionist1833
jerry-go-nimble1874
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xxxix. 6 Hoppynge & daunceynge of tumblers and herlotis.
c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 352 Mynystrel or joȝelour, tumbler and harlot.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 506/1 Tumlare (P. tumblar), volutator (S. volutatrix).
1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) ii. 57 b Certaine vearses like us verie well,..when we heare some tumbler or dauncer sing them to the Harpe.
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. v. vi. §7. 748 A trick of climing vpon mens heads, somewhat after the maner of our tumblers.
1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. xl. 14 Kit..faced about upon the ladder like some dexterous tumbler.
1874 J. S. Blackie On Self-culture 16 Dexterous riders and expert tumblers in the circus.
2. † b. transferred applied to a person; spec. one who allures or inveigles persons into the hands of swindlers (slang). Obsolete.† c. The six of trumps in the game of gleek. Obsolete.
a. A dog like a small greyhound, formerly used to catch rabbits; a lurcher. So called from its action in taking its quarry: see quots. Obsolete exc. Historical.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [noun] > lurcher
tumbler1519
Norfolk tumbler1607
lurcher1668
tumbler dog1675
tumbler bitch1680
snap-dog1877
1519 W. Horman Vulgaria xxxii. f. 277 Tumblers, houndes, that can goo an huntynge by them selfe: brynge home theyr praye.
1576 A. Fleming tr. J. Caius Of Eng. Dogges 11 This sorte of Dogges..we..call Tumblers, because in hunting they turne and tumble, winding their bodyes about in circle wise... He..so prouideth..that the selly simple Conny is debarred quite from his hole.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. v. 187 Men observe that the eye of a Tumbler is biggest not constantly in one, but in the bearing side. View more context for this quotation
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 185/1 The Tumbler, or Lurcher is..in shape like the Grey-hound.
1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. i. 25 The Vertagus, or Tumbler..toke its prey by meer subtility.
1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Tumbler, a dog formerly employed for taking rabbits. This it effected by tumbling itself about in a careless manner till within reach of the prey, and then seizing it by a sudden spring.
1897 Q. Rev. Jan. 141 Dogs are no longer trained as ‘Norfolk tumblers’, to attract the rabbits on the warrens by their quaint antics.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > defrauder or swindler > [noun] > decoy
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barnardc1555
barnacle1591
setter1591
tumbler1602
circling boy1631
moon-curser1673
sweetener1699
stool1825
stool-pigeon1830
bonnet1831
buttoner1839
button1851
steerer1873
plugger1886
shillaber1913
shill1916
1602 B. Jonson Poetaster i. ii. sig. B2v Away Setter, away. Yet stay, my little tumbler . View more context for this quotation
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Tumbler,..one that Decoys, or draws others into Play.
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Tumbler,..a sharper employed to draw in pigeons to game.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > gleek > specific cards
Tom1647
Tiba1658
tiddy1662
towser1680
tumbler1680
1680 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester (ed. 2) vi. 65 The fifth [is called] Towser, the sixth Tumbler, which if in hand Towser is five and Tumbler six, and so double if turn'd up.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xvi. 73/2 Tumbler, is the sixth of the trumps.
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the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Odontoceti > [noun] > family Phocaenidae (porpoise)
swineeOE
mereswineeOE
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sea-swine1398
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brownswinec1440
bassinatc1540
pollantine1558
sea-hog1580
hogfish1611
tursion1655
tumbler1694
sea-pig1826
snuffer1829
puffing pig1845
puff-pig1861
puffer1884
1694 tr. F. Martens Voy. Spitzbergen 125 in Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. They are not Sword-fish, nor of the same kind we call Tumblers.
1808–12 J. Walker Ess. Nat. Hist. 532 Delphinus Phocaena... Porpesse... Scot. Pellock. Tumbler.
4. A variety of domestic pigeon characterized by the habit or faculty of turning over and over backwards during its flight.
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > domestic pigeon > [noun] > tumbler
tumbler1678
tumbler pigeon1688
almond1735
almond tumbler1765
tippler1847
kite1867
roller1867
1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. ii. xv. 182 Pigeons... Tumblers..are small, and of divers colours. They have strange motions, turning themselves backward over their Heads, and shew like footbals in the Air.
1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species i. 21 The common tumbler has the singular and strictly inherited habit of flying at a great height in a compact flock, and tumbling in the air head over heels.
5.
a. One who tumbles or falls.Apparently an isolated use.
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1904 Daily Chron. 1 Mar. 6/3 It was real hockey..; when a collision brought a tumble, the tumbler took the accident like a lady.
b. An inexperienced window-cleaner.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing other specific things > [noun] > windows > one who > inexperienced
tumbler1960
1960 ‘A. Burgess’ Doctor is Sick i. 8 Me, I clean windows... I've seen these young ones just starting—‘tumblers’ we call them—get froze stuck up there on a ladder.
1972 Times 20 Sept. 3/2 Forty years ago..novice window cleaners starting at the bottom of the ladder were known in the cold-blooded jargon of the trade as tumblers.
6.
a. A drinking cup, originally having a rounded or pointed bottom, so that it could not be set down until emptied; often of silver or gold; now, a tapering cylindrical, or barrel-shaped, glass cup without a handle or foot, having a heavy flat bottom.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun]
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skull1513
Maudlin cup1544
Magdalene cup?a1549
mazer bowl1562
skew1567
shell1577
godet1580
mazard1584
bousing-can1590
cushion1594
glove1609
rumkin1636
Maudlin pot1638
Pimlico1654
mazer dish1656
mug1664
tumbler1664
souce1688
streaker1694
ox-eye1703
false-cup1708
tankard-cup1745
poculum1846
phiale1867
tumbler-cup1900
stem-cup1915
sippy cup1986
1664 S. Pepys Diary 20 Oct. (1971) V. 302 Thence home..taking two silver Tumblers home which I have bought.
1689 London Gaz. No. 2485/4 A Gold Tumbler of 100 l. value.
1698 B. Bullivant in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 168 I put a Straw for a Perch into a Venice Glass Tumbler.
1779 Black in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 73 *305 A common tumbler or water-glass.
1842 S. Lover Handy Andy iii I thought there was no tumbler but a tumbler for punch.
1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times v. 136 Rings of pottery..evidently intended to serve as supports for these earthenware tumblers.
1876 W. F. Collier Tales Old Eng. Life 79 The guests were supplied with tumblers, or glass vessels, which, being rounded at the base, could not stand upright, and must, therefore, be emptied at a draught.
1886 G. R. Sims Ring o' Bells i. Introd. 1 The tumblers were rattled upon the table.
b. The contents of a tumbler; a tumblerful.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > amount defined by capacity > [noun] > amount that fills a receptacle > glass > tumbler
tumbler-glass1795
tumbler1829
tumblerful1829
1829 J. Togno & E. Durand tr. H. Milne-Edwards & P. Vavasseur Man. Materia Medica vi. 170 From two to five tumblers, in the morning, pure or mixed with milk or any other drink.
1873 W. Black Princess of Thule v. 81 Mackenzie mixed another tumbler of toddy.
c. A toy, usually representing a grotesque squatting figure, having the centre of gravity low and the base rounded so as to continue rocking when touched; cf. mandarin n.1 1b. rare.
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > doll > other figures > [noun] > rocking
mandarin1775
tumbler1850
Chinese tumblerc1865
1850 C. Dickens Christmas Tree in Househ. Words 21 Dec. 289/2 The Tumbler with his hands in his pockets, who wouldn't lie down.
1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) II. 504/1 Her legs tucked up mysteriously under her gown into a round ball, so that her figure resembled in shape the plaster tumblers sold by the Italians.
7. = tumbril n. 1a; cf. tumbler-cart n. at Compounds 2. slang and dialect.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > cart (usually two-wheeled) > lumbering
tumbler1673
tumbler-cart1880
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > wagon or cart for specific articles > for dung
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dung cartc1405
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dung pot1575
tumbler1673
mud-cart1749
tumbler-cart1880
1673 R. Head Canting Acad. 16 (Flaugg'd at the Tumbler) whipt at the Carts-arse.
1692 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 534 They had on board 200 horses for the artillery,..40 feild pieces, 80 tumblers.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Shove the Tumbler, to be Whipt at the Cart's Tail.
1757 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1889) I. 490 Choose me..as much thread as is necessary,..and send them up by John who comes down with a Tumbler for that purpose.
1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 92 The shafts had two pins that embraced the axle and made these awkward wheels tumble along; from which circumstance they were named tumblers.
a1814 J. Ramsay Scotl. & Scotsmen 18th Cent. (1888) II. x. 199 Tumblers, a trifling species of carts which have for ages been used about Alloa for transporting coals to the shore.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. viii. 119 Small carts, or tumblers, as they were called in that country.
8. Geology. A detached mass of rock; a rolled stone or boulder. Now only dialect.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > [noun] > a rock > boulder
stonerockeOE
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rocka1413
calionc1459
outlier1610
boother1680
tumbler1789
boulder1815
lost stone1819
erratic blocka1828
erratic blocka1828
lost rock1831
gibber1834
tumbling stone1857
foundling-stone1892
1789 A. Mills in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 80 77 On the surface are tumblers of red granite, and some few of lava.
1789 A. Mills in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 80 80 The bottom of the glen is covered with large tumblers of lava.
1799 R. Kirwan Geol. Ess. i. 209 That [sandstone]..must also be primary, though it contains tumblers (caillous roulés).
1876 H. B. Woodward Geol. Eng. & Wales x. 305 (note) In the eastern part of North Wales the boulders are called ‘Granite tumblers’.
1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Tumbler, Tumler, a boulder, a detached block of stone.
9. With capital T: A Dunker or Tunker (see Dunker n.2): in allusion to their method of baptism. U.S.
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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Baptists > sects and groups > [noun] > Dunkard
Dunker1744
Dunkard1750
tumbler1796
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 281 They are also called Tumblers, from the manner in which they perform baptism, which is by putting the person, while kneeling, head first under water, so as to resemble the motion of the body in the action of tumbling.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > [noun] > disordering > one who or that which
tumbler1580
undresser1611
upsetter1836
disrupter1881
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Brouilleur, ou qui Brouille, a tumbler togither, a slubberer.
1694 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) iv. lxiv. 260 Tumblers of Beads, Mumblers of Ave Marias.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > ruffianly conduct > ruffian > [noun] > frequenting streets > aristocratic
Tityre-tu1623
Mohock?1711
tumbler1712
scarlet1755
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > violent treatment or force > frequenting streets > aristocratic
Tityre-tu1623
Mohock?1711
tumbler1712
scarlet1755
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 324. ⁋1 The Mohock Club... A third sort are the Tumblers, whose office it is to set Women on their Heads.
1878 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. (1883) I. 482.
12.
a. = tumble-dung n. at tumble- comb. form 1.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Lamellicornia Scarabaeoidea > family Scarabaeidae > member of (dung-beetle)
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grey fly1638
dunghill beetle1658
comb-chafer1712
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tumble-dung1775
dung-chafer1805
tumble-bug1805
tumbler1807
bull-comber1813
straddle-bug1839
lamellicorn1842
scarabaeidan1842
shard-beetle1854
watchman1864
scarabaeoid1887
scarabaeid1891
minotaur1918
1807 Salmagundi 1 Oct. 318 The aspiring politician may be compared to that indefatigable insect, called the Tumbler,..which..forms a little ball, which it rolls laboriously along.
b. The aquatic larva of the mosquito or other species of the Culicidæ: see quot. 1858-63. U.S.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Nematocera > family Culicidae > member of (gnat or mosquito) > aquatic larva of
wiggle1831
wiggletail1855
tumbler1858
wiggler1859
1858–63 Amer. Cycl. VIII. 51 (Cassell's) They are..called tumblers from the manner in which they roll over and over in the water.
13. In mechanical applications.
a. In a gun-lock, a pivoted plate through which the mainspring acts on the hammer, and in the notches of which the sear engages.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > mechanism > [noun] > part of > other parts
tumbler1624
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gadget1885
loop1912
doojigger1927
1624 Althorp MS. in J. N. Simpkinson Washingtons (1860) App. 58 For a new tumbler for a muskit locke 00 00 06.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xviii. 135/1 The seuerall parts of a Fire lock and a match lock, and wheele lock... The Tumbler.
1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 117 In consequence of the firm locking of the sear in the Tumbler, the gun cannot possibly go off.
1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xi. §2617 The cock works in a slot in the middle of the stock; there is no tumbler.
1871 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports (ed. 9) i. i. ii. §1 Occasionally, in central-fire guns, the tumbler itself is made to propel the striker.
b. In a roasting-jack, a pawl or catch which allows a barrel to revolve in one direction independently of a wheel centred on the same axle, but which takes the wheel with it when it revolves in the other direction.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > roasting-jack > parts of
dog-wheel1592
jack weight1642
flyer1674
jack-pulley1675
spit-wheel1678
tumbler1678
spit-rack1693
jack flyer1731
1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. iii. 47 The Tumbler is so placed..that while the Jack line is winding up upon the Barrel its round britch passes forwards by all the Crosses of the Main wheel..: But when the Barrel is turned the contrary way,..the Tumbler..thrusts the Main Wheel about with [it].
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 323/1 [Of a jack] The Tumbler, the Center whereof moveth upon the Center Pin.
c. In a lock: †A pivoted piece through which the pressure of a spring was transmitted to the tail of the bolt, tending to keep it pushed forwards (obsolete); now, a pivoted piece kept in position by a spring, with projections which drop into notches in the bolt and hold it until lifted by the proper key.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > lock > tumbler
tumbler1678
Chubb1833
tumbler lock1833
1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. ii. 28 The Tumbler..is a long piece of Iron..and it hath an Hook returning at the other end of it, to fall into the breech of the Bolt, and by the spring H forces the Bolt forwards.
1792 Trans. Soc. Arts (ed. 2) 3 166 The tumbler and tail of the latch or spring bolt.
1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 277 Mr. Kemp..published in 1816, a lock, the interior security of which consists in the adaptation of tumblers or sliders.
1911 J. Ward Rom. Era Brit. xiii. 238 The lock had both wards and tumblers.
d. Nautical. Apparently a sleeve or cap fitted on a mast, with a hook, ring, or swivel to afford means of attachment, etc.; see also quot. 1877.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > mast > fittings on mast for affixing rigging
funnel1694
throat bolt1805
futtock-staff1841
necklace1860
truss-hoop1867
tumbler1867
futtock-hoop1874
bale-band1891
truss-band1909
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Tumbler,..a contrivance to avoid the necessity of having copper nailed on the mast to prevent a gaff from chafing it.
1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Tumbler (Nautical), one of the movable pins with which the cathead-stopper and shank-painter are respectively engaged.
1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 9 There is a tumbler on each cap to connect the conductors of the two masts together.
1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 121 A..derrick..working on a swivel tumbler on the mast.
e. A revolving barrel, or a barrel with a rotating paddle, used in tanning skins; also, a tumbling-box.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > [noun] > for performing other processes
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concentrator1804
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spacer1857
tumbler1857
plough1860
aspirator1863
trap1877
tumbling-box1877
plicater1880
comparator1883
tumbler-drum1883
rumbling barrel1894
copier1917
programmer1945
simulator1947
tensioner1950
platformer1953
hydrogasifier1966
snubber1972
1857 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 310/2 They [lamb-skins] are first fed with alum and salt in a drum or tumbler made like a huge churn.
1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Tumbler,..a vertically rotating case for cleaning castings placed within it.
1883 R. Haldane Workshop Receipts 2nd Ser. 367/2 After leaving the press, they [the skins] are put into a ‘tumbler’, or revolving barrel.
1891 S. P. Sadtler Handbk. Industr. Org. Chem. (1900) x. 329 The tanning was formerly done with sumach and gambier, either in revolving paddle ‘tumblers’..or according to the English method.
f. Each of the stickers of a tumbler-coupler in an organ (see Compounds 2).
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > coupler > parts of
backfall1880
tumbler1881
1881 W. E. Dickson Pract. Organ-building xii. 154 A slender bridge, having as many notches as keys in the manual, and fitted with short stickers called tumblers.
g. Coal Mining. A tipper; cf. tumbling tom n. at tumbling- comb. form 2.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > equipment for lowering or raising miners or material > for raising material > equipment for tipping
tumbling tom1826
coal tip1852
kick-up1883
tumbler1883
1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining Tumbler, (S[cotland]), see Tipper.
1886 J. Barrowman Gloss. Sc. Mining Terms 69 Tumbler, tipping apparatus for tubs or waggons.
h. In a clock or watch: see quot. 1884.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > part(s) of
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Jack1498
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Jack of the clockhouse1563
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work1570
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snail-work1591
pointer1596
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mainspring1605
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jack-wheel1647
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balance1660
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stop1675
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regulator1676
cock1678
movement1678
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pinwheel1696
starred wheel1696
swing-wheel1696
warning-wheel1696
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watch-part1696
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hour-wheel1704
snail1714
step-wheel1714
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train1751
crutch1753
cannon pinion1764
rising board1769
remontoire1774
escapement1779
clock jack1784
locking plate1786
scapement1789
motion work1795
anchor escapement1798
scape1798
star-wheel1798
recoil escapement1800
recoiling pallet1801
recoiling scapement1801
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recoiling escapement1805
bottle jack1810
renovating spring1812
quarter-boy1815
pin tooth1817
solar wheel1819
impulse-teeth1825
pendulum wheel1825
pallet arbor1826
rewinder1826
rack hook1829
snail-wheel1831
quarter bell1832
tow1834
star pulley1836
watch train1838
clock train1843
raising-piece1843
wheelwork1843
gravity escapement1850
jumper1850
vertical escapement1850
time train1853
pin pallet1860
spade1862
dead well1867
stop-work1869
ringer1873
strike-or-silent1875
warning-piece1875
guard-pin1879
pendulum cock1881
warning-lever1881
beat-pin1883
fusee-piece1884
fusee-snail1884
shutter1884
tourbillion1884
tumbler1884
virgule1884
foliot1899
grasshopper1899
grasshopper escapement1899
trunk1899
pin lever1908
clock spring1933
1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 110 Tumbler, a revolving finger that in striking clocks and repeating watches moves the rack one tooth for each blow struck.
i. In some looms, each of the levers from which the heddles are suspended.
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1891 in Cent. Dict.
j. elliptical for tumbler-dryer n. at Compounds 2 below.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > drying clothes by spinning in machine > machine for
spin dryer1939
tumbler1947
tumble dryer1972
1947 W. L. Carmichael et al. Callaway Textile Dict. 360/1 Tumbler, a clothes-drying device consisting of a revolving cage in which hot air is circulated.
1961 Listener 30 Nov. 951/2 The most trouble-free and quick-to-use kind of dryer, the electric ‘tumbler’.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a.
tumbler bitch n.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [noun] > lurcher
tumbler1519
Norfolk tumbler1607
lurcher1668
tumbler dog1675
tumbler bitch1680
snap-dog1877
1680 London Gaz. No. 1481/4 Lost..a white Tumbler Bitch with yellow ears.
tumbler-brush n. (in sense 6.)
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1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Tumbler-brush.
tumbler fancier n.
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1854 Poultry Chron. 2 276/1 The Almond Tumbler fancier, whose ‘little wonders’ cannot feed their own young!
tumbler-glass n.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > glass
glassc888
verrea1382
Venice glass1527
rummer1625
bottle glass1626
Malaga glassa1627
flute1649
flute-glass1668
long glass1680
mum-glass1684
toasting glass1703
wine glass1709
tulip-glass1755
tun-glass1755
water glass1779
tumbler-glass1795
Madeira glass1801
tumbling glass1803
noggin glass1805
champagne glass1815
table glass1815
balloon glass1819
copita1841
firing glass1842
nobbler1842
thimble glass1843
wine1848
liqueur-glass1850
straw-stem1853
pokal1854
goblet1856
mousseline1862
pony glass1862
long-sleever1872
cocktail glass1873
champagne flute1882
yard-glass1882
sleever1896
tea-glass1898
liqueur1907
dock-glass1911
toast-master glass1916
Waterford1916
stem-glass1922
Pilsner glass1923
Amen glass1924
ballon1930
balloon goblet1931
thistle glass1935
snifter1937
balloon1951
shot-glass1955
handle1956
tulip1961
schooner1967
champagne fountain1973
the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > amount defined by capacity > [noun] > amount that fills a receptacle > glass > tumbler
tumbler-glass1795
tumbler1829
tumblerful1829
1795 J. Woodforde Diary 14 Oct. (1929) IV. 234 The third [remarkable fact] was, of a Man drinking half Pint Tumbler Glass of Beer and eat the Glass after it.
1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic viii. 193 Stretch a thin sheet of wet paper..over the mouth of a tumbler-glass with a footstalk.
1844 J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows I. xi. 234 A tumbler-glass of iced punch.
tumbler lock n.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > lock > tumbler
tumbler1678
Chubb1833
tumbler lock1833
1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §1585 3-inch brass tumbler lock and key on each door.
1881 F. Young Every Man his own Mechanic §1488 A lock of better and more complicated construction..called a tumbler lock.
tumbler-maker n.
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1902 Westm. Gaz. 29 Mar. 9/1 Under the present rule the tumbler-makers must keep on working just as long as the fancy glass makers continue to work.
tumbler movement n. (cf. tumbler-coupler n. at Compounds 2.)
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > coupler > motion of
tumbler movement1880
1880 C. A. Edwards Organs ii. xii. 112 The means provided to effect this coupling was called the ‘tumbler’ movement.
tumbler pigeon n.
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > domestic pigeon > [noun] > tumbler
tumbler1678
tumbler pigeon1688
almond1735
almond tumbler1765
tippler1847
kite1867
roller1867
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 244/2 The Tumbler Pigeon is small and of diverse colours.
1890 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 26 215/2 A tumbler-pigeon hatched out a Minorca chicken, a hen having laid in the pigeon-box.
tumbler-pin n.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > lock > part of lock > tumbler > projection on
stub1561
tumbler-pin1853
tusk1875
1853 A. Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) II. 251 The lock outside,..a, the plate; b, the cock; c, the tumbler-pin.
1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 264 The tumbler-pin is first turned out, and by means of a wire punch inserted in the hole, the tumbler is knocked away from both hammers and lock-plate.
tumbler-pivot n.
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1892 W. W. Greener Breech-loader 116 Knock in the tumbler-pivot half-way.
tumbler-screw n.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > other specific parts
touch plate1508
maniglion1704
gun-lock screw1731
match pipe1740
quoin of mire1797
bricole1809
tumbler-screw1843
training wheel1875
hand1880
side lever1892
gun-lock spring1894
gun control1909
magazine well1948
1843 Act relating Militia State of Vermont 1842 80 Order in which the lock is taken apart... 9. The tumbler screw.
1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports (ed. 2) i. i. ii. 19/1 The various parts of the lock [of a gun] are..5th, the tumbler-screw, which fastens the tumbler and cock together.
b.
tumbler-shaped adj.
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1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xi. §2570 The loop upon each barrel receiving the end of a steel tumbler-shaped bolt.
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tumbler-bearing n. a bearing which automatically falls out of position to make way for a gear travelling upon the shaft which it supports.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > shaft > [noun] > parts of > support or bearing
headstock1688
brass1731
bearing1734
carriage1788
step1814
bearance1826
footstep1836
cod1839
pivot bearing1851
roller bearing1857
thrust-bearing1858
step-plate1869
thrust-bearer1869
needle bearing1870
journal-bearing1875
wall-bearing1875
plain bearing1893
tumbler-bearing1901
split bearing1902
sleeve bearing1907
thrust-box1918
taper roller bearing1930
1901 J. Black Illustr. Carpenter & Builder Ser.: Scaffolding 60 We have power transmitted with square shaft, with tumbler bearings bolted to the walls of a building.
tumbler-beds n. plural, a local name for the loose crumbly upper portion of the carboniferous limestone.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > stratigraphic units > [noun] > primary or Palaeozoic > carboniferous spec.
millstone grit1682
tumbler-beds1821
culm measures or series1836
Mississippian1893
Pennsylvanian1902
1821 W. Forster Section of Strata (ed. 2) 103 About sixteen feet of the upper part of [the Great Limestone] is called the Tumbler Beds.
tumbler-cart n. = sense 7.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > cart (usually two-wheeled) > lumbering
tumbler1673
tumbler-cart1880
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > wagon or cart for specific articles > for dung
dung putt1313
dung cartc1405
tumbril1440
dung pot1575
tumbler1673
mud-cart1749
tumbler-cart1880
1880 D. Murray Old Cardross 38 The only wheeled vehicles known prior to that time [c1763] were tumbler carts, which were simply sledges mounted on small wheels..made solid.. united by a wooden axle, and all turning round together.
1888 Q. Rev. July 38 Sledges were used.., more recently tumbler carts with solid wheels, mere slabs of timber.
tumbler closet n. see quot.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] > water-closet or lavatory > types of
pan-closet1855
trough-closet1870
tumbler closet1870
pan-latrine1897
flush toilet1950
Porta Potti1968
Johnny-on-the-spot1971
1870 W. H. Corfield Treatm. Sewage 123 The ‘Tumbler’ closet... In this there is..a trough running under the privy-seats..; the water trickles into a swinging basin at the upper end, which is so constructed that it capsizes when full and washes out the contents of the trough into the drain.
tumbler-coupler n. a unison manual coupler in an organ in which the connection between each two keys is made by a short sticker (see 13f) which turns over at an angle when not in use.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > coupler
pedal-coupler1834
coupler1840
copula1852
pedal-copula1852
polychord1858
octave coupler1868
sforzando coupler1876
tumbler-coupler1876
ram-coupler1881
coupling-
1876–98 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 342/2 The tumbler coupler is now almost obsolete.
tumbler-cup n. a cup with a rounded bottom: cf. sense 6.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun]
chalicec825
napeOE
copc950
fullOE
cupc1000
canOE
shalec1075
scalec1230
maselin?a1300
mazer1311
richardine1352
dish1381
fiole1382
pece1383
phialc1384
gobletc1400
bowl-cup1420
chalice-cup1420
crusec1420
mazer-cup1434
goddard1439
stoup1452
bicker1459
cowl1476
tankard1485
stop1489
hanapa1513
skull1513
Maudlin cup1544
Magdalene cup?a1549
mazer bowl1562
skew1567
shell1577
godet1580
mazard1584
bousing-can1590
cushion1594
glove1609
rumkin1636
Maudlin pot1638
Pimlico1654
mazer dish1656
mug1664
tumbler1664
souce1688
streaker1694
ox-eye1703
false-cup1708
tankard-cup1745
poculum1846
phiale1867
tumbler-cup1900
stem-cup1915
sippy cup1986
1900 Westm. Gaz. 7 Mar. 1/3 A pair of tumbler cups, 1698, 10 oz.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 27 Mar. 8/1 A Georgian plain tumbler-cup,..weighing 4oz. 13dwt.
tumbler dog n. = sense 2 (Obsolete); also, a catch or detent in a padlock which retains the hasp (Forney Car-Builder's Dict. 1884).
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [noun] > lurcher
tumbler1519
Norfolk tumbler1607
lurcher1668
tumbler dog1675
tumbler bitch1680
snap-dog1877
1675 London Gaz. No. 1022/4 Lost..a white Tumbler Dog, both Ears spotted with red.
tumbler-drum n. = sense 13e.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > [noun] > for performing other processes
purchase1711
adjuster1747
concentrator1804
steamer1814
isolator1855
spacer1857
tumbler1857
plough1860
aspirator1863
trap1877
tumbling-box1877
plicater1880
comparator1883
tumbler-drum1883
rumbling barrel1894
copier1917
programmer1945
simulator1947
tensioner1950
platformer1953
hydrogasifier1966
snubber1972
1883 R. Haldane Workshop Receipts 2nd Ser. 373/1 The skins are either trodden in it with the feet, or put into a tumbler-drum.
tumbler-dryer n. (also tumbler-drier) = tumble dryer n.
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1956 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 13/2 Electric Tumbler Dryers dry by means of a revolving drum in a heated cabinet.
1969 Which? Nov. 352/2 Generally all the tumbler driers were easy to use.
tumbler-holder n. a metal frame in which a tumbler of drink is served (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1877).
tumbler-music n. music produced with tumblers or ‘musical glasses’.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > music on specific instrument > [noun] > on glasses
tumbler-music1893
1893 F. F. Moore I forbid Banns (1899) 150 She thought the tumbler-music very interesting.
tumbler-punch n. see quot.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > equipment for use with firearms > [noun] > other equipment
stone-bag1346
night house1632
mealing table1765
tumbler-punch1843
thumb-stall1864
sub-target1902
beanbag1970
1843 Act relating Militia State of Vermont 1842 80 Each squad of ten men, a wire and tumbler punch.
1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Tumbler-punch.., a small two-bladed punch used for pushing the arbor of the tumbler, the band~springs, etc., from their seats, in taking a gun apart.
tumbler-stand n. a tray on which tumblers are automatically rinsed (Knight).
tumbler switch n. an electric switch operated by pushing over a small spring tumbler or thumb-piece.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > circuit > device to open or close circuit > [noun] > by mode of operation
time switch1884
pull switch1888
press switch1892
autoswitch1903
tumbler switch1907
snap switch1926
timer1934
1907 Installation News Apr. 16/1 A new form of tumbler Switch.
tumbler-tank n. a flushing cistern having two compartments, one of which when filled tilts the other into the position for filling and empties itself ( Cent. Dict. 1891).
tumbler-washer n. a stand with jets of water for rinsing tumblers (Knight).
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