Definition of "tippler" [tip•pler]

• A seller of alcoholic liquors. (noun)
• A habitual drinker; a bibber. (noun)
• A breed of domestic pigeon bred to participate in endurance competitions. (noun)
• An open wagon with a tipping trough, unloaded by being inverted (used for bulk cargo, especially minerals). A mine car, a lorry. (noun)

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• "He is further down this road, probably about a half mile or so up this road actually at the entrance to the mining facility, to where they call the tippler, which is the processing plant of the mine."
• "Mr. Marquis’s The Old Soak, a post-prohibition portrait of a genial old tippler, is perhaps the most vital bit of American humor since Mr. Dooley — some say since Mark Twain."
• "Among the main buildings still standing is the "tippler," where mining cars traveling on a narrow-gauge railroad track would be tipped over, dumping their loads of coal."