[f. TIPPLE v.3 + -ER1.] One who or that which tips or turns over: spec.

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  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.

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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.

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1891.  Kipling, City Dreadf. Nt., 83. The tub is run out into a ‘tippler’ and discharges itself into a coal-truck.

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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.

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  2.  A variety of tumbler pigeon: see quot. 1879.

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1847–78.  Halliwell, Tippler, a tumbler; hence, when they talk of a tumbler pigeon, you hear them say, ‘What a tippler he is!’

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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.

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1885.  Bazaar, 30 March, 1265/1. Tipplers.—4 pairs of Macclesfield tipplers. Price 4/- per pair.

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