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TUM'BLE, v.i. [L. tumulus, tumultus, tumeo.]
TUM'BLE, v.t. To turn over; to turn or throw about for examination or searching; sometimes with over; as, to tumble over books or papers; to tumble over clothes. [To tumble over in thought, is not elegant.]
To tumble out, to throw or roll out; as, to tumble out casks from a store.
To tumble down, to throw down carelessly.
TUM'BLE, n. A fall.
To roll over,
or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person on pain
tumbles and tosses.
To roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to
be precipitated; as, to tumble from a scaffold.
He who tumbles from a tower surely has a greater blow than he who slides from a molehill. South. To play tricks by various movements and
contortions of the body; to perform the feats of an acrobat.
Rowe.
To tumble home (Naut.), to incline inward, as the sides of a vessel, above the bends or extreme breadth; -- used esp. in the phrase tumbling home. Cf. Wall-sided. To
turn over; to turn or throw about, as for examination or search; to roll or
move in a rough, coarse, or unceremonious manner; to throw down or
headlong; to precipitate; -- sometimes with over, about,
etc.; as, to tumble books or papers.
To disturb; to rumple; as, to tumble a
bed.
Act of tumbling, or rolling
over; a fall.
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