tipple

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To drink (alcoholic liquor) or engage in such drinking, especially habitually or to excess.
2. n. Alcoholic liquor.
3. n. An apparatus for unloading freight cars by tipping them.
4. n. The place where this is done.
5. n. A place for screening coal and loading it into trucks or railroad cars.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. In haymaking, a bundle of hay collected from the swath, and formed into a conical shape. This is tied near the top so as to make it taper to a point, and set upon its base to dry.
2. To turn over, as in tumbling; tumble.
3. n. The place where cars are tipped, or have their contents dumped; a dump; a cradle-dump. Also tip.
4. To drink strong drink often in small quantities. As commonly used, the word implies reprehensible indulgence in frequent or habitual drinking, short of the limit of positive drunkenness.
5. To imbibe slowly and repeatedly; drink by sips or in small quantities, as liquor; use in drinking.
6. To affect by tippling, or frequent drinking; bring under the influence of strong drink; make boozy or drunk.
7. n. Liquor taken in tippling; stimulating drink: sometimes used figuratively.

Wiktionary

1. n. An area near the entrance of mines which is used to load and unload coal.
2. n. rail transport An apparatus for unloading railroad freight cars by tipping them; the place where this is done.
3. n. slang Any alcoholic drink.
4. v. To drink alcohol regularly or habitually, but not to excess.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To drink spirituous or strong liquors habitually; to indulge in the frequent and improper used of spirituous liquors; especially, to drink frequently in small quantities, but without absolute drunkeness.
2. v. To drink, as strong liquors, frequently or in excess.
3. v. To put up in bundles in order to dry, as hay.
4. n. Liquor taken in tippling; drink.
5. n. An apparatus by which loaded cars are emptied by tipping; also, the place where such tipping is done.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. drink moderately but regularly
2. n. a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg