Definition of tumble

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Tumble (v. i.) To play tricks by various movements and contortions of the body; to perform the feats of an acrobat.

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Tumbleweed :: Tumbleweed (n.) 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..
Tumble :: Tumble (v. t.) To disturb; to rumple; as, to tumble a bed..
Tousle :: Tousle (v. t.) To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse.
Tumbler :: Tumbler (n.) A breed of dogs that tumble when pursuing game. They were formerly used in hunting rabbits.
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..
Waddle :: Waddle (v. i.) To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles..
Tumbled :: Tumbled (imp. & p. p.) of Tumbl.
Stumble :: Stumble (n.) A trip in walking or running.
Welter :: Welter (v. i.) To rise and fall, as waves; to tumble over, as billows..
Tumbler :: Tumbler (n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight..
Bit :: Bit (v.) The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
Tumble :: 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..
Blunder :: Blunder (v. i.) To move in an awkward, clumsy manner; to flounder and stumble..
Stumbling-block :: Stumbler (n.) One who stumbles.
Toss :: Toss (v. t.) To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar..
Stutter :: Stutter (v. t. & i.) To hesitate or stumble in uttering words; to speak with spasmodic repetition or pauses; to stammer.
Betumbled :: Betumbled (imp. & p. p.) of Betumbl.
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..
Stumble :: Stumble (v. i.) To fall into a crime or an error; to err.
Muckworm :: Muckworm (n.) A larva or grub that lives in muck or manure; -- applied to the larvae of the tumbledung and allied beetles.
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