[f. TIPPLE v.3 + -ER1.] One who or that which tips or turns over: spec.
1. A frame or cage into which a wagon, truck, or tub is run, and which is then revolved so as to invert the wagon and discharge its contents.
1831. J. Holland, Manuf. Metal, I. 46. Instead of the old corve and water bucket, an iron box, mounted on wheels, and called a tippler, and somewhat resembling in shape a common coal skip is made to travel completely round.
1891. Kipling, City Dreadf. Nt., 83. The tub is run out into a tippler and discharges itself into a coal-truck.
1911. Encycl. Brit., VI. 591. The tub is run into a tippler, a cage turning about a horizontal axis, which discharges the load and brings the tub back to the original position.
2. A variety of tumbler pigeon: see quot. 1879.
184778. Halliwell, Tippler, a tumbler; hence, when they talk of a tumbler pigeon, you hear them say, What a tippler he is!
1879. L. Wright, Pigeon Keeper, x. 128. [Tipplers throw only one such] backward somersault in the air at a time . Tumblers often make two, three, or more backward revolutions without stopping.
1885. Bazaar, 30 March, 1265/1. Tipplers.4 pairs of Macclesfield tipplers. Price 4/- per pair.