Tumbler, one who plays mountebank tricks by various librations and movements of the body; a harlequin: “wear his colours like a --'s hoop,” LLL III, 190 ('tumblers' hoops are to this day bound round with ribbons of various colours'. Harris).
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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