Talk:tippler

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tippler

Rfv-sense: a seller of booze - I noticed it as it had a dumb Webster 1913 lb-tag. OED2 doesn't have it spelled this way Not spelled Shaka Khan (talk) 20:49, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

• Fail Jewle V (talk) 16:38, 8 September 2023 (UTC)

The old OED has this as "A retailer of ale and other intoxicating liquor; a tapster; a tavern-keeper. Obs." Some of their cites and some other cites I found are:

• 1561, regulation for the sale of Ale, quoted in Some 1925, B. Howard Cunnington, Annals of the Borough of Devizes:

  Yt it a greyd at this Court that ther shall no In holder nor Typler sell no ale in eny measure but in such measure or measures as are, or shalbe scallid [...] Also it is a greyd, that the aforsaid In holder or Typler, yt dowthe not sell his ale accordinge unto the order afor rehersid, shall fforfitt ffor evry tyme so offending, iijd., [...] and the afforsaid In holders and Typlers shall sell after the ratte afor spesciffyd [...]

• 1563, record quoted in 1907, Reports of the Great Britain Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, page 224:

  And that the bruers or typlars shall not sell any bere or ale above the prices above set, upon payne to forfayt [...]

• 1567, regulation, quoted in 1894, William John Monk, History of Witney, page 111:

  It is decrede that no tippler shall allow any unlawful games in his howse.

• 1641 April 13, "By the Major. The Order of the House of Commons to the Lord Major, for the due observing the Sabbath day", in Speeches and passages of this great and happy Parliament, page 400:

  [...] and that expresse charge be given to every keeper of any Tavern, Inne, Cookshouse, Tobacco-house, Alehouse, or any other tipler or victualler whatsoever within your ward, [...]

• 1876, Stephen Dowell, A sketch of the history of Taxes in England from the earliest times to the present day, vol. 1, page 356:

  and a penalty is omposed on the sale or delivery of any ale or beer, except for household use, to any person who sells it as a common tippler or ale-house keeper, unless he has a license in force.

- -sche (discuss) 17:05, 8 September 2023 (UTC)

I've added the cites. Passed - -sche (discuss) 21:23, 15 September 2023 (UTC)