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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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(Tummyllar,) Tum(e)ler, n. Also: tumlar, twmller, tumbler. [ME and e.m.E. tumbler (a1340), tumlare (Prompt. Parv.) an acrobat, tumbler (1664) a drinking cup, tumbler (1673) a tumbrel. Also in the later dial.]

1. A cart, for transporting artillery or heavy goods, a tumbrel. 1557–8 Edinb. Old Acc. I 252.
The expenses maid upone the bying of the artailȝerie and furnessing thairof … for ane gryt aschin tre to be tumlars, xiiij s. 1573 Treas. Acc. XII 344.
For ane greit corbell jeist to be ane stok to the said battard … for ij waneskot to be a tumlar to the said stok 1652 Rec. Old Aberd. II 147.
Waird for laying on the ston on wmquhill Mr. Wiliam Strachan, for drink to the men that laid it on the horse hyre to bring the tumblers out of Aberdeen 1654 Edinb. B. Rec. VIII 377.
The cairteris and sledderis of Edinburgh … sall … have no wheillis of cairts or tumbleris shod with yron for spoylling of the streitts

b. attrib. 1535–6 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I 186.
For schone and nalis to the gret tumlar quhelis 1612 10th Rep. Hist. MSS App. i 43.
As for tumeler cairtis, thair is nan heir 1644 Edinb. Test. LX 376b.
Ane tumler cairt schoid with irone estimat to x lib.

c. ? absol. for tumler wheel. 1646 Edinb. Test. LXII 330a.
Twa pair of tumlers estimat baith to xxviij lib. … ane bodie of ane waine [etc.]

2. A tumbler lock; a lock more generally. 1490–1 Mylne Master Masons 11.
Fortifying … it [sc. a castle] with moats, iron gates, drawbridges, tumlars, portcullises, battlements … and skowlares, and with all other and sundry munitions and defences c1670 Douglas Chart. 343.
Plenishing in Tantallon Castle. Four iron ȝetis at the enterie, and ane iron ȝet at the tumbler, with shod perculieris

3. A tumbler, a drinking cup. 1681 Fam. Rose 372.
Item two twmllers, 11 wnce 15 drop, at 3 pound 8 s. the wnce is £40 12 s. … a picktwr kes [etc.]