To beat: his father tuned him delightfully: perhaps from fetching a tune out of the person beaten, or from a comparison with the disagreeable sounds of instruments when tuning.
Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.
tumbler * to tupNathan Bailey's 1721 Dictionary of canting and thieving slang
John S. Farmer's collection of canting songs and slang rhymes