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Encyclopedia Britannica



TUMBLER

This article appears in Volume V27, Page 370 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: TOO-TUM
TUMBLER , that which " tumbles," i.e. falls or rolls over or down. The O. Eng. tumbiare, of which Mid. Eng. tumblere is a frequentative form, appears also in Du. tuimelen, Ger. taumeln, to stagger, tumble about; Fr. tomber, to fall, is Teutonic in origin. As applied to a person, "'tumbler " is another word for an acrobat, one who shows his agility by turning somersaults,
standing
  on his head, walking or dancing on his hands, &c. It is interesting to
note
  that Herodias' daughter
Salome
  is described as a tumbe.stere in Harl. MS., 1701, f. 8, quoted by Halliwell (
Diet
 . of Archaic Words), and in the margin of Wycliffe's Bible (Matt. xiv. 6) tumblide is given as a variant of daunside (danced). Similarly, in early pictures of her dancing before
Herod
 , she is represented sometimes as
standing
  on her head. The common drinking-glass known as a " tumbler," which now is the name given to a plain cylindrical glass without a
stem
  or foot, was originally a glass with a rounded or pointed
base
 , which could only stand on being emptied and inverted (see DRINKING VESSELS,
Plate
  I., fig. 3).
TUMBLE-
WEED
 , a botanical
term
  for a plant which breaks loose when dry, and is blown about, scattering its seeds by the way.


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