tippler

A seller of alcoholic liquors; keeper of a tippling-house or tavern.

It is decrede that no tippler shall allow any unlawful games in his howse.

[...] and that expresse charge be given to every keeper of any Tavern, Inne, Cookshouse, Tobacco-house, Alehouse, or any other tipler or victualler whatsoever within your ward, [...]

A habitual drinker; a bibber.

[…]they had picked up two fellows in that day’s march, one of which, he said, was as fine a man as ever he saw (meaning the tippler),

He had, in truth, drunk very little - not a fourth of the quantity which a systematic tippler could carry to church on a Sunday afternoon without a hitch in his eastings or genuflections[.]

A breed of domestic pigeon bred to participate in endurance competitions.

An open wagon with a tipping trough, unloaded by being inverted (used for bulk cargo, especially minerals). A minecart, a lorry.

Ackers was working as a tippler operator. His mate, L. Beveridge, saw that Ackers had tipped a full skip and Beveridge allowed another full skip to gravitate to Acker's tippler.

A shaft runround was made to conduct the empties from the tippler to the empty side of the shaft where they would rejoin the old circuit.

One who works at a tipple.