English Dictionary

tippler

名詞

古語 イギリス英語 別表記 異形

(archaic, Webster 1913) A seller of alcoholic liquors; keeper of a tippling-house. / A habitual drinker; a bibber. / A breed of domestic pigeon bred to participate in endurance competitions.

日本語の意味

酒類販売人、酒場の管理人（古語的意味） / 常習的な酒飲み、酒中者 / 持久競争に参加するために飼育された家鴿の一品種

A tippler stationed himself outside the docks, selling casks of ale to sailors and soldiers alike.

その酒類の販売人は波止場の外に陣取り、船乗りや兵士たちに樽入りのエールを売っていた。

意味（1）

(archaic, Webster 1913) A seller of alcoholic liquors; keeper of a tippling-house.

意味（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),

意味（3）

A breed of domestic pigeon bred to participate in endurance competitions.

意味（4）

(UK, railroad) An open wagon with a tipping trough, unloaded by being inverted (used for bulk cargo, especially minerals). A mine car, a lorry.

意味（5）

(mining) One who works at a tipple.

意味（6）

Alternative form of tipple, a revolving frame or cage in which a truck or wagon is inverted to discharge its load.

Unloading is by tipplers on to a moving conveyor at the power station, which naturally involves uncoupling individual wagons.

tipplers （ plural ）