Definitions for tumbler

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tumbler tum·bler

Spelling: [tuhm-bler]

IPA: /ˈtʌm blər/

Tumbler is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 159 anagrams from letters in tumbler (belmrtu).

Definitions for tumbler

noun

1. a person who performs leaps, somersaults, and other bodily feats.
2. (in a lock) any locking or checking part that, when lifted or released by the action of a key or the like, allows the bolt to move.
3. a stemless drinking glass having a flat, often thick bottom.
4. (in a gunlock) a leverlike piece that by the action of a spring forces the hammer forward when released by the trigger.
5. Machinery. a part moving a gear into place in a selective transmission. a single cog or cam on a rotating shaft, transmitting motion to a part with which it engages.
6. a tumbling box or barrel.
7. a person who operates a tumbling box or barrel.
8. one of a breed of dogs resembling a small greyhound, used formerly in hunting rabbits.
9. Also called roller. one of a breed of domestic pigeons noted for the habit of tumbling backward in flight.
10. a toy, usually representing a fat, squatting figure, that is weighted and rounded at the bottom so as to rock when touched.
11. a tumbrel or tumble cart.

Origin of tumbler

1300-50; Middle English: acrobat; see tumble, -er¹. Compare Low German tümeler drinking-cup, kind of pi

Examples for tumbler

Cut it into cakes with the edge of a tumbler or with a tin-cake cutter.

But who is the gentleman who is just going up to them and handing them a tumbler so officiously?

“There is a serious undercurrent here,” said Gardner, between sips from her tumbler.

He half filled the tumbler as he said it, and drank off the contents when he had done saying it.

Within the first day, it was re-blogged 30,000 times on tumbler.

Tessie sat blowing rings of smoke up to the ceiling and tinkling the ice in her tumbler.

She had been beating up an egg with sugar and wine, and now brought it in in a tumbler.

Audiences were shocked and horrified by the scene, as the two performers fell on top of tumbler George North.

Short cakes may be made of this, cut out with the edge of a tumbler.

He drained the wine from the tumbler and turned away from the window, and there was no self-pity in his gravelly voice.