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Tumbler   /tˈəmblər/   Listen
Tumbler

noun
1.
A gymnast who performs rolls and somersaults and twists etc..
2.
A glass with a flat bottom but no handle or stem; originally had a round bottom.
3.
A movable obstruction in a lock that must be adjusted to a given position (as by a key) before the bolt can be thrown.
4.
Pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground.  Synonyms: roller, tumbler pigeon.



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"Tumbler" Quotes from Famous Books



... Lulu's up and dressed and gone into Miss Elsie's room, Miss Wilet," remarked Agnes, holding the tumbler she had brought to ...
— Elsie's New Relations • Martha Finley

... with a suitable answer, I merely made what I intended to be an affirmative ahem, in doing which a crumb of bread chose to go the wrong way, producing a violent fit of coughing, in the agonies of which I seized and drank off Dr. Mildman's tumbler of ale, mistaking it for my own small beer. The effect of this, my crowning gaucherie, was to call forth a languid smile on the countenance of the senior pupil, a tall young man, with dark hair, and a rather forbidding expression of face, which struggled only too successfully with ...
— Frank Fairlegh - Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil • Frank E. Smedley

... a luxurious theft from sleep; and even now the remembrance of my starlit bath of that Indian morning comes pleasantly across my mind. The bath was literally taken by starlight; for the tumbler of oil, with its floating wick—which is the ordinary lamp of the country—was hardly seen in its far-off corner, when I unclosed the jalousies, and admitted the solemn, silvery planet-light. The window above the bath opened into the garden; and it is scarcely possible to conceive ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 454 - Volume 18, New Series, September 11, 1852 • Various

... "Pop," said the cork "Bubble, bubble, bubble," said the whiskey. Bottle in one hand, full tumbler in the other, I walked in. George poured half a tumblerful down Lycidas's throat that time. Nor do I dare say how much he poured down afterwards. I found that there was need of it, from what he said of the pulse, when it ...
— The Man Without a Country and Other Tales • Edward E. Hale

... two flights of stairs; then, as he was coming up again with the water-bottle filled, he sat down, in his nightshirt, on a step of the stairs where there was a draught, and drank, without a tumbler, in long pulls like a runner who is out of breath. When he ceased to move the silence of the house touched his feelings; then, one by one, he could distinguish the faintest sounds. First there was the ...
— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. • Guy de Maupassant


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