tippler

Meanings

1. A seller of alcoholic liquors; keeper of a tippling-house or tavern.
2. A habitual drinker; a bibber.
3. A breed of domestic pigeon bred to participate in endurance competitions.
4. An open wagon with a tipping trough, unloaded by being inverted (used for bulk cargo, especially minerals). A minecart, a lorry.
5. One who works at a tipple.
6. Alternative form of tipple, a revolving frame or cage in which a truck or wagon is inverted to discharge its load.

Etymology

From tipple + -er (“agent”). “Seller” sense from 1396; “drinker” sense from 1580.