Crossword clues for tumbler
tumbler
- Pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground
- A gymnast who performs rolls and somersaults and twists etc.
- A glass with a flat bottom but no handle or stem
- Originally had a round bottom
- A movable obstruction in a lock that must be adjusted to a given position (as by a key) before the bolt can be thrown
- Glass of a sort
- Drinking glass
- Gymnast, one filled with spirit
- Glass; acrobat
- Glass, one rolling over and over
- Glass, one dropping to the floor?
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tumbler \Tum"bler\, n.
One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body; an acrobat.
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.
(Firearms) 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.
A drinking glass, without a foot or stem; -- so called because originally it had a pointed or convex base, and could not be set down with any liquor in it, thus compelling the drinker to finish his measure.
(Zo["o]l.) A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight.
(Zo["o]l.) A breed of dogs that tumble when pursuing game. They were formerly used in hunting rabbits.
A kind of cart; a tumbrel. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., "acrobat," agent noun from tumble (v.). Compare Old English tumbere "tumbler, dancer." A fem. form was tumblester (early 15c.), tumbester (late 14c.) "female acrobatic dancer." Meaning "drinking glass" is recorded from 1660s, originally a glass with a rounded or pointed bottom which would cause it to "tumble;" thus it could not be set down until it was empty. As a part of a lock mechanism, from 1670s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body; an acrobat. 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 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. 4 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. 5 A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight. 6 A beverage cup, typically made of stainless steel, that is broad at the top and narrow at the bottom commonly used in India. 7 (context obsolete English) A dog of a breed that tumbles when pursuing game, formerly used in hunting rabbits. 8 (context UK Scotland dialect obsolete English) A kind of cart; a tumbrel.
WordNet
n. a gymnast who performs rolls and somersaults and twists etc.
a glass with a flat bottom but no handle or stem; originally had a round bottom
a movable obstruction in a lock that must be adjusted to a given position (as by a key) before the bolt can be thrown
pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground [syn: roller, tumbler pigeon]
Wikipedia
In the design of the Xanadu computer system, a tumbler is an address of any range of content or link or a set of ranges or links. According to Gary Wolf in Wired, the idea of tumblers was that "the address would not only point the reader to the correct machine, it would also indicate the author of the document, the version of the document, the correct span of bytes, and the links associated with these bytes." Tumblers were created by Roger Gregory and Mark Miller.
They were used in the Xanadu FEBE (Front End - Back End) protocol in a manner similar to the use of URIs between web browsers and servers.
Tumbler may refer to:
Tumbler is the name of four fictional character in Marvel Comics.
A tumbler is a flat-bottomed beverage container for drinking made of plastic, glass, etc.
They are 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.
- Collins glass, for a tall mixed drink
- Dizzy Cocktail glass, a glass with a wide, shallow bowl, comparable to a normal Cocktail glass but without the stem
- Highball glass, for mixed drinks
- Iced tea glass
- Juice glass, for fruit juices and vegetable juices.
- Old Fashioned glass, traditionally, for a simple cocktail or liquor " on the rocks". Contemporary American "rocks" glasses may be much larger, and used for a variety of beverages over ice
- Shot glass, a small glass for up to four ounces of liquor. The modern shot glass has a thicker base and sides than the older whiskey glass
- Table-glass or stakan granyonyi
- Water glass
- Whiskey tumbler, a small, thin-walled glass for a straight shot of liquor
Usage examples of "tumbler".
But to extend the hypothesis so far as to suppose that species, aboriginally as distinct as carriers, tumblers, pouters, and fantails now are, should yield offspring perfectly fertile, inter se, seems to me rash in the extreme.
She dropped from the taffrail, ran to the binnacle and picked up the tumbler she had left at its foot.
Christmas she got out the silver waiter and borrowed a glass tumbler and filled it with water, and put the boquet in it and set it on the waiter.
I put the bent spike of the bradawl in like a key and felt for the tumblers.
The seasoning may be varied by using one teaspoon of curry powder, a few grains of cayenne or half a tumbler of currant jelly and salt to taste.
Mr Cupples had shouted into his empty tumbler while just going to swallow the last few drops without the usual intervention of the wine-glass.
If he had been told that Cosmo Cupples had more than once, after the first tumbler of toddy and before the second, betaken himself to his prayers for his poor Alec Forbes, and entreated God Almighty to do for him what he could not do, though he would die for him--to rescue him from the fearful pit and the miry clay of moral pollution--if he had heard this, he would have said that it was a sad pity, but such prayers could not be answered, seeing he that prayed was himself in the gall of bitterness and the bond of iniquity.
Oleg, his contact, sat opposite him in a dowdily covered chair, a tumbler of malt whisky balanced on its wide arm.
After a couple days the glass is all steamed up and the roach has asphyxiated messlessly and Orin discards both the roach and the tumbler in separate sealed Ziplocs in the dumpster complex by the golf course up the street.
Even Jess-F, whom Richard had pegged as the toughest zenvol he had yet met, broke out the metallised glass tumblers from a dispenser by the fountain, while Gewell and the sniffling Zootie sat at their ease at table.
He tried a tumbler of Kirsch for this and decided that it was exactly the right thing for giving the punch a subtler but at the same time more brittle tone.
When he finished, Avallach dropped the tumbler back onto the tray, and Lile dabbed his chin with the cloth as one would a forgetful child.
She leaned toward the tumbler and Nyk placed the tube between her lips again.
The milk dispenser stands alone against the west wall, a big huge 24-liter three-bagger, the milk inserted in ovaloid mammarial bags into its refrigerated cabinet of brushed steel, with three receptacles for tumblers and three levers for controlled dispensing.
The first of the party to arrive was Pickel who cartwheeled towards us like a circus tumbler.