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

As much as a tumbler will hold; enough to fill a tumbler.

One who stumbles.

The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers. Knight.

A projection on the bolt, which passes through the tumbler gates in locking and unlocking.

In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.

A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner.

l) See under 2d Back. -- Half bent, the first notch, for the sear point to enter, in the tumbler of a gunlock; the halfcock notch. -- Half binding, a style of bookbinding in which only the back and corners are in leather. -- Half boarder, one who boards in part; specifically, a scholar at a boarding school who takes…

A firearm with match holder, trigger, and tumbler, made in the second half of the 15th century. the barrel was about forty inches long. A form of the harquebus was subsequently called arquebus with matchlock.

The tumbler of a gunlock. Knight.

ch the parts can be transposed or shifted, so as to require different arrangements of the tumblers on different occasions of unlocking.

having a cylindrical bolt; a lock in which pins, arranged by the key, are used instead of tumblers. -- Pin money, an allowance of money, as that made by a husband to his wife, for private and personal expenditure. -- Pin rail (Naut.), a rail, usually within the bulwarks, to hold belaying pins. Sometimes applied to th…

A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt, except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key; a fence; also, a pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece. Leg stump (Cricket), the stump nearest to the batsman. -- Off stump (Cricket), the stump…

A variety of pigeon; a tumbler.

One who vaults; a leaper; a tumbler. B. Jonson.

A tumbler; a leaper or vaulter.