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Tumble [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A fall.

Tumble [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To roll; to roll about by turning one way and the other; as, a person in pain tumbles and tosses.

2. To fall; to come down suddenly and violently; as, to tumble from a scaffold.

3. To roll down. The stone of Sisyphus is said to have tumbled to the bottom, as soon as it was carried up the hill.

4. To play mountebank tricks.

Tumble [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. 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.]

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

3. To tumble out, to throw or roll out; as, to tumble out casks from a store.

4. To tumble down, to throw down carelessly.

Tumble [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Act of tumbling, or rolling over; a fall.

Tumble [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

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

Tumble [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Tumble-down [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Ready to fall; dilapidated; ruinous; as, a tumble-down house.

Tumblebug [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Tumbledung.

Tumbled [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Rolled; disturbed; rumpled; thrown down.

Tumbled [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Tumbledung [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Any one of numerous species of scaraboid beetles belonging to Scarabaeus, Copris, Phanaeus, and allied genera. The female lays her eggs in a globular mass of dung which she rolls by means of her hind legs to a burrow excavated in the earth in which she buries it.

Tumbler [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One who tumbles; one who plays the tricks of a mountebank.

2. A large drinking glass.

3. A variety of the domestic pigeon, so called from his practice of tumbling or turning over in flight. It is a short-bodied pigeon, of a plain color, black, blue or white.

4. A sort of dog, so called form his practice of tumbling before he attacks his prey.

Tumbler [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body; an acrobat.

2. A movable obstruction in a lock, consisting of a lever, latch, wheel, slide, or the like, which must be adjusted to a particular position by a key or other means before the bolt can be thrown in locking or unlocking.

3. A piece attached to, or forming part of, the hammer of a gunlock, upon which the mainspring acts and in which are the notches for sear point to enter.

4. A drinking glass, without a foot or stem; -- so called because originally it had a pointed or convex base, and could not be set down with any liquor in it, thus compelling the drinker to finish his measure.

5. A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight.

6. A breed of dogs that tumble when pursuing game. They were formerly used in hunting rabbits.

7. A kind of cart; a tumbrel.

Tumblerful [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

As much as a tumbler will hold; enough to fill a tumbler.

Tumblerfuls [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Tumbleweed [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots in the autumn, and is driven by the wind, as a light, rolling mass, over the fields and prairies; as witch grass, wild indigo, Amarantus albus, etc.