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▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: A rotating device for smoothing and polishing rough objects, placed inside it, on relatively small parts.
▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight.
▸ noun: A beverage cup, typically made of stainless steel, that is broad at the top and narrow at the bottom commonly used in India.
▸ noun: Something that causes something else to tumble.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A dog of a breed that tumbles when pursuing game, formerly used in hunting rabbits.
▸ noun: (UK, Scotland, dialect, obsolete) A kind of cart; a tumbril.
▸ noun: (entomology) The pupa of a mosquito.
▸ noun: One of a set of levers from which the heddles hang in some looms.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A porpoise.
▸ noun: (cryptocurrencies) A service that mixes potentially identifiable or 'tainted' cryptocurrency funds with others, so as to obscure the audit trail; used for money laundering.
Similar:
roller,
tumbler pigeon,
tumbling,
tirlie-whirlie,
totter,
tumble turn,
rough-and-tumble,
titter-totter,
flip turn,
tossment,
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