RUMMAGE
\ɹˈʌmɪd͡ʒ], \ɹˈʌmɪdʒ], \ɹ_ˈʌ_m_ɪ_dʒ]\
Definitions of RUMMAGE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion); "he gave the attic a good rummage but couldn't find his skis"
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a jumble of things to be given away
By Princeton University
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a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion); "he gave the attic a good rummage but couldn't find his skis"
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a jumble of things to be given away
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A searching carefully by looking into every corner, and by turning things over.
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To search or examine thoroughly by looking into every corner, and turning over or removing goods or other things; to examine, as a book, carefully, turning over leaf after leaf.
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To search a place narrowly.
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A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship; also, the act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage; - formerly written romage.
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To make room in, as a ship, for the cargo; to move about, as packages, ballast, so as to permit close stowage; to stow closely; to pack; - formerly written roomage, and romage.
By Oddity Software
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A searching carefully by looking into every corner, and by turning things over.
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To search or examine thoroughly by looking into every corner, and turning over or removing goods or other things; to examine, as a book, carefully, turning over leaf after leaf.
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To search a place narrowly.
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A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship; also, the act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage; - formerly written romage.
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To make room in, as a ship, for the cargo; to move about, as packages, ballast, so as to permit close stowage; to stow closely; to pack; - formerly written roomage, and romage.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To turn over and disarrange things in search.
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A rummaging; disturbance.
By James Champlin Fernald
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