Tumble \Tum"ble\, n. Act of tumbling, or rolling over; a fall.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Tumble \Tum"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tumbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Tumbling.]

[OE. tumblen, AS. tumbian to turn heels over head, to dance violently; akin to D. tuimelen to fall, Sw. tumla, Dan. tumle, Icel. tumba; and cf. G. taumeln to reel, to stagger.]

1. To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person on pain tumbles and tosses.

2. 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.

3. 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Tumble \Tum"ble\, v. t.

1. 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.

2. To disturb; to rumple; as, to tumble a bed.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)