Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a public house, a tavern.

1542		A. Boorde Introduction of Knowledge (1870) 207: There is no place to haue succour with-in seuen or eyght myles; and than a man shal haue but a typling house.
1551		T. More Utopia I (1624) 17: Wine-tauerns, ale-houses, and tipling houses.
c.1566		Harman Caveat for Common Cursetours in Viles & Furnivall (1907) 32: They brynge to their stawlinge kens, which is their typplyng houses.
1586		G. Whetstone Mirrour for Magestrates of Citties (2nd edn) G3: But for Tauernes and tiplyng Boothes, Drunkards should be sober against their wils.
1594		Greene Frier Bacon and Frier Bungay H3: Haue you not good tipling houses there, may not a man haue a lustie fier there, a pot of good ale.
1597		E.S. Discovery of Knights of Poste A4: As mery as a man with two penny loaves in his pocket, he steps into a tiplinghouse.
1608		Dekker Belman of London G4: Some notorious trebble-chind baude [...] who keepes a tippling house, and brings vp yong Trugs [...] that are harlots to the Liftes.
c.1615		‘The Famous Rat-Catcher’ in Rollins Pepysian Garland (1922) 65: Now to the Tipling houses, to kill the Vermin featly.
c.1624		‘Statute for Swearers and Drunkards’ in Rollins Pepysian Garland (1922) 192: You that lie bathing from morning to twilight, / In Tauerne and Tipling house.
1673		J. Wade Vinegar and Mustard A6: You are at your Unsanctified Tipling Inns, your Ale-houses or your Taverns, and are drunken.
1675		Head Art of Wheedling 250: Our Saint that hath all the Tricks of a Tavern or Tipling-house.
1685–95		‘The Unconscionable Batchelors’ in Ebsworth Roxburghe Ballads (1893) VII:1 225: So soon as they came into the Fair, / The Batchelors made them conjues low, / And bid them a thousand welcomes there; / This done, to a tippling-school they go.
1698		N. Ward ‘Sot’s Paradise’ in Writings (1704) 27: Thro’ Entry dark, I th’ Tipling mansion sought.
1699		N. Ward London Spy IV 79: Just as my Friend had ended his Sonnet, in came the little Lord of the Tippling Tenement. [Ibid.] VII 162: Each Tippling-House kept Open Doors.
1700		T. Brown Amusements Serious and Comical in Works (1744) III 93: Which occasion’d my Indian to be more particularly inquisitive about the tipling rendezvous.
1734		C. Johnson Hist. of Highwaymen &c. 145: He keeps a Tippling-house.
1779		Nocturnal Revels I 66: Mr. Bounce — you keep a Tippling-house for disorderly people.
1781		S. Johnson in Boswell Life (1906) II 360: A bishop (said he) has nothing to do at a tippling-house.
1804		‘J.T.’ An Intercepted Letter 24: The Pope licenses brothels, and they are nearly as bad as tippling houses.
1818		M.L. Weems Drunkard’s Looking Glass (1929) 94: A group of topers around the door of a tippling shop.
1828		Enniskillen Chron. 28 Aug. 1/1: My wife kept a tipling-house [sic] on the side of the hill, and the night-walkers used to go there.
1832		Albany Microscope (NY) 2 June n.p.: The police have not yet discovered the all keepers of tipling shops.
1841		Flash (NY) 26 Sept. n.p.: All yesterday I kept my word. Nor sought the tippling shop.
c.1849		Paige Dow’s Sermons I 144: Every rum-mill, groggery and tippling-shop [...] is a trap set by the devil to catch those who are guilty of not having over three cents [DA].