Obs. exc. Hist. [f. TIPPLING vbl. sb.1 + HOUSE sb.] A house where intoxicating liquor is sold and drunk; an ale-house, a tavern.
1547. Boorde, Introd. Knowl., xxxi. (1870), 200. The best fare is in prestes houses, for they do kepe typlynge houses.
1551–2. Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI., c. 25, Preamble. Comen Ale-houses and other houses called Tiplinge houses.
1639. Laud, Wks. (1853), V. 239. Our university of Oxford had heretoforo the government and correction of all manner of ale-house-keepers, ale-houses, and other tippling-houses.
1757. Washington, Lett., Writ. 1889, I. 502. Instances of the villainous Behavior of those Tippling-House-keepers.
1817. Scott, Lett. to Morritt, 11 Aug., in Lockhart. There is a terrible evil in England to which we are strangers,—the number, to-wit, of tippling houses, where the labourer … spends the overplus of his earnings.
1877. Burroughs, Taxation, 393. ‘To regulate and restrain tippling houses,’ confers no power to tax them.
