tumbler

English

Etymology

tumble +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʌmblɚ/

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Noun

tumbler (plural tumblers)

1. (archaic) One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body; an acrobat.
   • Francis Bacon

     […] the tricks of tumblers, funambuloes, baladines […]

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.
5. 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 his measure.
   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 46

     "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.

6. A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight.
7. A beverage cup, typically made of stainless steel, that is broad at the top and narrow at the bottom commonly used in India.
8. (obsolete) A dog of a breed that tumbles when pursuing game, formerly used in hunting rabbits.
9. (UK, Scotland, dialect, obsolete) A kind of cart; a tumbril.
10. The pupa of a mosquito.
11. One of a set of levers from which the heddles hang in some looms.
12. (obsolete) A porpoise.
13. (cryptocurrencies) A service that mixes potentially identifiable or 'tainted' cryptocurrency funds with others, so as to obscure the audit trail.

A tumbler (drinking glass) filled with milk.

Related terms

• tumble

Translations

acrobat — see acrobat

movable obstruction in lock

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

part of a gunlock

• Italian: percussore (it) m
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drinking glass without stem

• 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
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• 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
• Taos: bósuną (glass)
• Welsh: tymbler m

variety of pigeon

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

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• (deprecated template usage) Hebrew: כוס (kos) f
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See also

• glass
• highball
• pigeon

Anagrams

• Trumble, tumbrel