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tumbler

noun

One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body; an acrobat.

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Word length
7
Starts with
T
Ends with
R
Contains
UMBLE
Scrabble score
11
Database source
OEWN 2025 Core

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/ˈtʌmblɚ/

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noun

  1. One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body; an acrobat.

  2. 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.

  3. A rotating device for smoothing and polishing rough objects, placed inside it, on relatively small parts.

  4. 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.

  5. 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 his measure.

  6. A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight.

  7. A beverage cup, typically made of stainless steel, that is broad at the top and narrow at the bottom commonly used in India.

  8. A dog of a breed that tumbles when pursuing game, formerly used in hunting rabbits.

  9. A kind of cart; a tumbril.

  10. The pupa of a mosquito.

  11. One of a set of levers from which the heddles hang in some looms.

  12. A porpoise.

  13. (cryptocurrency) A service that mixes potentially identifiable or 'tainted' cryptocurrency funds with others, so as to obscure the audit trail.

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