Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - tumbler
Tumbler
tumbler
n. 1 a drinking-glass with no handle or foot (formerly with a rounded bottom so as not to stand upright). 2 an acrobat, esp. one performing somersaults. 3 (in full tumbler-drier) = tumble-drier. 4 a a pivoted piece in a lock that holds the bolt until lifted by a key. b a notched pivoted plate in a gunlock. 5 a kind of pigeon that turns over backwards in flight. 6 an electrical switch worked by pushing a small sprung lever. 7 a toy figure that rocks when touched. 8 = tumbling-barrel (see TUMBLE). Derivatives tumblerful n. (pl. -fuls).
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noun Date: 14th century one that tumbles: as, one who performs tumbling feats ; acrobat, any of various domestic pigeons that tumble or somersault backward in flight or on the ground, a drinking glass without foot or stem and originally with pointed or convex base, 3. a movable obstruction in a lock (as a lever, latch, wheel, slide, or pin) that must be adjusted to a particular position (as by a key) before the bolt can be thrown, a piece on which the mainspring acts in a gun's lock, a device or mechanism for tumbling (as a revolving cage in which clothes are dried), a worker who operates a ~, ~ful noun ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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