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.
1564		M. Justinus [trans.] Trogus Pompeius 97: [H]e thought it not inough to loyter vp and down the streates, onlesse he wer bibbing in euery tippling house.
c.1566		Harman Caveat for Common Cursetours in Viles & Furnivall (1907) 32: They brynge to their stawlinge kens, which is their typplyng houses.
1577		Eusebius of Caesarea [trans.] The auncient ecclesiasticall histories [O]n euery side there were vittailers, tauernes and tippling houses full of harlots and naughtypackes: .
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.
1638		R. Bolton A iustice of peace for Ireland 160: An Indictment against a Keeper of a common Tippling house.
1648		J. Cook The poore mans case 18: [F]earfull Oathes and horrid Execrations are daily belcht out in Tippling-houses.
1655		C. Sorel The comical history of Francion 6: [T]hose men, who in the ordinary tippling-houses drinking in an old shooe [and] sending for wine, did pour it all along the back of that fair and naked body, and commanded all the rest to come and drink it up at it was running down her cleft.
1657		T. Reeve God’s plea for Nineveh 174: The lust of Corinth made all Greece a Brothel-house, the intemperance of Plintine turned all Egypt into a Tippling-booth.
1662		J. Evelyn Sculptura 26: [T]he Heads of Kings and Heros should be permitted to hang for Signes [...] at the pleasure of every Tavern and Tippling-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].