tumbler

1. 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.

   кулачо́кkulačók

   a movable obstruction in a lock that must be adjusted to a given position (as by a key) before the bolt can be thrown

2. A device for smoothing and polishing rough objects that are placed inside its rotating chamber.

   rock tumbler

3. 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.

4. 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 their measure.

   Trinkglas, Tumbler, Glasbecher

   стака́нstakán

   a glass with a flat bottom but no handle or stem; originally had a round bottom

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

   Tümmler

   го́лубь-верту́нgólubʹ-vertún

   pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground

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

7. Something that causes something else to tumble.

8. The pupa of a mosquito.

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

10. A service that mixes potentially identifiable or 'tainted' cryptocurrency funds with others, so as to obscure the audit trail; used for money laundering.

11. (archaic)One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body.

12. (obsolete)A dog of a breed that tumbles when pursuing game, formerly used in hunting rabbits.

1. Tom handed me a glass tumbler.

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2. In the tumbler, the cylinder form is tapered.

   deIm Trockner verjüngt sich die Zylinderform.

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3. I have a paper tumbler.

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4. I have a plastic tumbler.

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