tumbler

== English == === Etymology === From tumble +‎ -er. === Pronunciation === (US) IPA(key): /ˈtʌmblɚ/ Rhymes: -ʌmblə(ɹ) Homophone: Tumblr === Noun === tumbler (plural tumblers) (archaic) One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body. Synonym: acrobat A movable obstruction in a lock, consisting of a lever, latch, wheel, slide, or the like, which must be adjusted to a particular position by a key or other means before the bolt can be thrown in locking or unlocking. A rotating device for smoothing and polishing rough objects, placed inside it, on relatively small parts. A piece attached to, or forming part of, the hammer of a gunlock, upon which the mainspring acts and in which are the notches for sear point to enter. A drinking glass that has no stem, foot, or handle — so called because such glasses originally had a pointed or convex base and could not be set down without spilling. This compelled the drinker to finish their measure. A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight. A beverage cup, typically made of stainless steel, that is broad at the top and narrow at the bottom commonly used in India. Something that causes something else to tumble. Hyponym: yo tumbler (obsolete) A dog of a breed that tumbles when pursuing game, formerly used in hunting rabbits. (UK, Scotland, dialect, obsolete) A kind of cart; a tumbril. (entomology) The pupa of a mosquito. One of a set of levers from which the heddles hang in some looms. (obsolete) A porpoise. (cryptocurrencies) A service that mixes potentially identifiable or 'tainted' cryptocurrency funds with others, so as to obscure the audit trail; used for money laundering. Synonym: mixer ==== Hyponyms ==== (glass): lowball, lowball glass, highball, highballer, highball glass, whiskey glass, on-the-rocks glass, rocks glass, old-fashioned glass ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== tumble ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== glass highball pigeon === Anagrams === Trumble, tumbrel