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What is a tippler?

What is a tippler? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (archaic, Webster 1913) A seller of alcoholic liquors; keeper of a tippling-house.
  2. A habitual drinker; a bibber.
  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.
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A girl also needs peace to reapply her lippy, regroup and prepare for the next merciless assault on some feckless tippler.
Suzanne Phocas did, when she painted the artist Jean Metzinger, her husband-to-be, propped up against a marble Venus like a tippler at a museum opening.
As the tippler could not obtain the liquor for a spree, he had become sober.
But Lincoln was hopelessly inefficient behind the counter, and Berry was a tippler.
I was like the tippler who cuts down on her drinking and is then sent reeling by half a mojito.
The tippler brought his speech to an end, and shut himself up in an impregnable silence.

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