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- noun Plural form of
tumbler .
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Examples
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The red wine was poured in tumblers for all, and the long dining-room was partly cleared for dancing.
Chapter 4 2010
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The red wine was poured in tumblers for all, and the long dining-room was partly cleared for dancing.
Chapter IV 1913
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These are called "tumblers" or "rollers," specially bred and cared for, birds that Tyson has been raising since he was a kid.
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These are called "tumblers" or "rollers," specially bred and cared for, birds that Tyson has been raising since he was a kid.
The Seattle Times 2011
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What he found left in the file was a thick sheaf of ancillary reports and updates, the things investigators always lumped into the back of the book, the reports that Bosch called the tumblers because they often seemed disparate but nevertheless could unlock a case when seen from the right angle or put together in the right pattern.
The Closers Connelly, Michael, 1956- 2005
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"They had been fou for weeks thegither" – where they made amends by quaffing champagne and sherry in tumblers.
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These address, called tumblers, represent a Node+User+Document+Subdocument, and a minor variant to the syntax can express ranges between two points therein.
Planet XML 2009
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Bits of glassware, such as tumblers, vials, and dishes, are quite numerous.
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To-night, her eyes shone and her lips were parted in anticipation, as she leaped lightly over the many coloured streamers of the wheel of silken ribbons held by Barker in the centre of the ring, and by Toby and the "tumblers" on the edge of the bank.
Polly of the Circus Margaret Mayo 1916
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The "tumblers" arranged themselves around the ring with paper hoops; Bingo was fairly racing.
Polly of the Circus Margaret Mayo 1916
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