Forms: 4–5 tipeler, 5 -ar, tippelar, -ilar, typuler, 5–8 tipler, 6 typpler, typlar, 6–7 -er, 6– tippler. [In form and in sense the agent-noun in -ER from TIPPLE v.1, but actually known 150 years earlier than the vb., and prob. a century earlier than TIPPLING ppl. a., so that the exact nature of the relationship of these words is uncertain: see TIPPLE v.1]

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  † 1.  A retailer of ale and other intoxicating liquor; a tapster; a tavern-keeper. Obs.

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1396.  Nottingham Rec., I. 314. Johannes Jolivet et Johannes Smyth sunt communes tipelers, et vendunt infra domos suas cum discis et ciphis, contra Assisum.

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c. 1420.  Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees), 359. Adam Sharp bras’ tipelar, Alicia Mut tipelar, Joh’es Hunter tipelar. [So many instances 1424–5, etc.]

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1478.  Nottingham Rec., II. 298. Fines pro licentia merchandizandi Alicia Bult, tipler … iiij d.

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1530.  in W. H. Turner, Select. Rec. Oxford (1880), 80. In-holders, and typlers wtin the Towne of Oxford.

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1552.  Huloet, Typpler or vitayler, stabularius.

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1564.  in Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., Var. Coll., IV. 224. That the bruers or typlars shall not sell any bere or ale above the prices above set.

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1642.  Ord. & Declar. Lords & Com. Lords Day, 6. That expresse charge be given to every keeper of any Taverne, Inne, Cooks shop, Tobacco-house, Ale-house, or any other Tipler or Victualler.

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  2.  One who tipples; a habitual drinker of intoxicating liquor (implying more or less excess, but usually short of positive drunkenness).

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1580.  Hollyband, Treas. Fr. Tong, Vn bon Biberon, a bibber, a tippler.

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1622.  Massinger & Dekker, Virg. Martyr, II. i. Bacchus,… grand patron of rob-pots, upsie-freesie tiplers, and super-naculum takers.

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1738.  Gentl. Mag., VIII. 527/1. Which might be apply’d to much higher People, than poor Ale-house Tiplers.

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1829.  Lytton, Devereux, II. v. The women love not an early tippler.

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1899.  Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VIII. 724. The moist palm of the habitual tippler is familiar to every one.

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  Tippler2 dial. [f. TIPPLE v.2 + -ER1.] One who binds up hay in tipples: see TIPPLE sb.2

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1812.  [see TIPPLE v.2].

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