Definition of tumble

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Tumble (v. i.) To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person on pain tumbles and tosses..

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Roll :: Roll (v. i.) To fall or tumble; -- with over; as, a stream rolls over a precipice..
Stumble :: Stumble (v. t.) To cause to stumble or trip.
Titubate :: Titubate (v. i.) To stumble.
Betumble :: Betumble (v. t.) To throw into disorder; to tumble.
Welter :: Welter (v. i.) To roll, as the body of an animal; to tumble about, especially in anything foul or defiling; to wallow..
Stumbling :: Stumbled (imp. & p. p.) of Stumbl.
Stumble :: Stumble (v. i.) To trip in walking or in moving in any way with the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall; to stagger because of a false step..
Wall-sided :: Wall-sided (a.) Having sides nearly perpendicular; -- said of certain vessels to distinguish them from those having flaring sides, or sides tumbling home (see under Tumble, v. i.)..
Vault :: Vault (n.) To exhibit feats of tumbling or leaping; to tumble.
Toss :: Toss (v. i.) To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion; to write; to fling.
Tumbledung :: Tumbledung (n.) 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..
Tousle :: Tousle (v. t.) To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse.
Harquebuse :: Harquebuse (n.) A firearm with match holder, trigger, and tumbler, made in the second half of the 15th century. the barrel was about forty inches long. A form of the harquebus was subsequently called arquebus with matchlock..
Glass :: Glass (v. t.) A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner..
Tumbler :: Tumbler (n.) 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..
Toss :: Toss (v. t.) To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar..
Tumbler :: Tumbler (n.) A kind of cart; a tumbrel.
Gate :: Gate (n.) In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into..
Stumble :: Stumble (v. i.) To walk in an unsteady or clumsy manner.
Founder :: Founder (v. i.) To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse..
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