noun. One that drinks.

noun. One who drinks alcoholic liquors, especially habitually or excessively.

noun. One who drinks; particularly, one who drinks spirituous liquors habitually or to excess; a tippler.

noun. One who drinks; ; also, one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard.

noun. a large British moth (Odonestis potatoria).

noun. Agent noun of drink; someone or something that drinks.

noun. Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages on a regular basis, especially when to an extent that is likely to impair his or her well-being.

noun. A device from which animals can drink.

noun. a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess)

noun. a person who drinks liquids

"I would like your temperate drinker to pause, and reflect upon the fact, that the quantity of brandy or rum that he took at a drink, when he commenced this downhill course, has been gradually increased; so that in the second year, what had been quite sufficient to please his palate and produce all the desired effects in the first, was then insipidly small; and more so in the third year, if, mayhap, he could with any decency lay claim to the title of _temperate drinker_ so long."