cylinder rotates to move bolt; tumblers are pins; inserting the key lifts and aligns the pins to free the cylinder to rotate.
a club of tumblers or gymnasts.
a lock whose tumblers are levers that must be raised to a given position so that the bolt can move.
Bawling in front of their booths, and yokels looking up at the tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind.
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The part of a key that enters the lock and engages the bolt and tumblers.
She bought a set of six tumblers.
Door locks on automobiles and most high-security locks have pin tumblers.
two-part cylindrical tumblers held in place by springs; when they are aligned with a key the bolt can be thrown.
"Mikrophonie I" (1964), for example, was inspired by hitting the tam-tam that hung in his garden with spoons, tumblers and an egg-timer.
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