Tumbler (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Tumbler

A cart; also a sharper employed to draw in pigeons to game; likewise a posture-master, or rope-dancer. To shove the tumbler, or perhaps tumbril; to-be whipt at the cart’s tail.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

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