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noun

Tumble n. Act of tumbling, or rolling over; a fall.

verb

Tumble v. t.

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.

Tumble v. i. (past & past part. tumbled; pres. part. tumbling)

To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person in 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."

To play tricks by various movements and contortions of the body; to perform the feats of an acrobat.

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.

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"Tumble" Quotes from Famous Books

... "He'll tumble off, sure as yuh live," predicted Bert; but Weary never did things by halves; he shook his head and ...

— The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories • B. M. Bower

... limp with their tremendous effort, and shivering with exhaustion of mind and body, walked out of the little shanty-boat, up to the big one, sat down with Buck and Slip to breakfast, and then took their own course across the ruffled and tumble-surfaced river. ...

— The River Prophet • Raymond S. Spears

... glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things: There is no armour against fate: Death lays his icy hand on kings: Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor ...

— Lyra Heroica - A Book of Verse for Boys • Various

... obliged to you for having come so promptly," he said, with melancholy courtesy. "I thought we should have met soon—on an occasion—more agreeable to us both. As you are here, forgive me if I talk business. This rough-and-tumble world has to be carried on, and if it suits you, I shall be happy to recommend your appointment to her Majesty—as a Junior Lord of the Treasury—carrying with it, as of course you understand, the office ...

— The Testing of Diana Mallory • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... in a hideous pout, and with sullen, blazing eyes, he watched the battle go against him. Fifteen cowboys—he counted them, deliberately, coldly, despite the rage-mania that had seized him—were spurring after eight other men whom he knew for his own. As he watched he saw two of these tumble from their horses. And at a distance he saw the loops of ropes swing out to enmesh four more—who were thrown and dragged; he watched darkly as the remaining two raised their hands above their heads. Then his lips came out of their pout and ...

— 'Firebrand' Trevison • Charles Alden Seltzer

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