tippler

tipple +‎ -er (“(agent)”). “Seller” sense from 1396; “drinker” sense from 1580.

tippler (plural tipplers)

1. (archaic, Webster 1913) A seller of alcoholic liquors; keeper of a tippling-house.
2. A habitual drinker; a bibber.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter XI, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292, book VII:

     […] they had picked up two fellows in that day’s march, one of which, he said, was as fine a man as ever he saw (meaning the tippler),

3. A breed of domestic pigeon bred to participate in endurance competitions.
4. (Britain, railroad) An open wagon with a tipping trough, unloaded by being inverted (used for bulk cargo, especially minerals). A mine car, a lorry.
5. (mining) One who works at a tipple.

• (drinker): bibber; See also Thesaurus:drunkard

• Lippert, ripplet