Crossword-Solution: TUMBLER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tumbler | n. | One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body; an acrobat. |
| Tumbler | n. | 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. |
| Tumbler | n. | 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. |
| Tumbler | n. | A drinking glass, without a foot or stem; -- so called because originally it had a pointed or convex base, and could not be set down with any liquor in it, thus compelling the drinker to finish his measure. |
| Tumbler | n. | A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight. |
| Tumbler | n. | A breed of dogs that tumble when pursuing game. They were formerly used in hunting rabbits. |
| Tumbler | n. | A kind of cart; a tumbrel. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TUMBLER | anagram | TUMBREL |
We have 19 clues for the answer “TUMBLER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| originally had a round bottom | 1 answer |
| a glass with a flat bottom but no handle or stem | 1 answer |
| WATER glass | 1 answer |
| Trampoline artist. | 1 answer |
| Something lifted in some locks | 1 answer |
| Somersaulting drinking vessel? | 1 answer |
| Glass of a sort | 1 answer |
| A glass or type of pigeon | 1 answer |
| ... kind of circus performer? | 1 answer |
| pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground | 2 answers |
| Lock component | 2 answers |
| DRINKING glass | 3 answers |
| Lock part | 5 answers |
| Gymnast | 5 answers |
| Type of glass | 6 answers |
| CIRCUS entertainer | 10 answers |
| Acrobat | 22 answers |
| Pigeon | 39 answers |
| Glass | 47 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with TUMBLER (5)
Tillie had put a bunch of French pinks in a tumbler of water on her dresser, and they gave out a pleasant perfume.
There, again, she has upset a tumbler of marbles, all of which roll different ways, and each individual marble, devil-directed, into the most difficult obscurity that it can find.
Jennings, and we withdraw from the case.’ I sent down to the cellar for a bottle of champagne; and I administered half a tumbler-full of it to the patient with my own hand.
Goddard, what say you to _half_ a glass of wine? A _small_ half-glass, put into a tumbler of water? I do not think it could disagree with you.” Emma allowed her father to talk—but supplied her visitors in a much more satisfactory style, and on the present evening had particular pleasure in sending them away happy.
Zerkow took down a whiskey bottle and a red glass tumbler with a broken base from a cupboard on the wall.
Quotes with TUMBLER (3)
How would it alter Juliet’s love perception to learn the sea is but a rounded jug of water? Would her sensuous analogy turned simple simile unveil to her the limits of herself? Or would she forget the ocean, that deplorable casket, and turn on the true bottomless tumbler, the only running tap: the sky? It may have lost the title ‘heavens’ when its gods were dethroned, but its infinity reigns. So long as you walk, it reigns. So long as I talk and you listen, there’s a voice an…
A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Will or nill. Any man who could discover his own fate and elect therefore some opposite course could only come at last to that selfsame reckoning at the same appointed time, for each man's destiny is as large as the world he inhabits and contains within it all opposites as well. This desert upon which so many have been broken is vast and calls for largeness of heart but it is also ultimately empty. It is hard, it is ba…
And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, WSJ.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1968–2018).