Definition of tumble

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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..

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Toss :: Toss (v. t.) To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar..
Roll :: Roll (v. i.) To fall or tumble; -- with over; as, a stream rolls over a precipice..
Vault :: Vault (n.) To exhibit feats of tumbling or leaping; to tumble.
Tumble :: Tumble (v. i.) To play tricks by various movements and contortions of the body; to perform the feats of an acrobat.
Founder :: Founder (v. i.) To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse..
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 strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; -- with on, upon, or against..
Titubate :: Titubate (v. i.) To stumble.
Stumbling-block :: Stumbler (n.) One who stumbles.
Tumbler :: Tumbler (n.) 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..
Tumbler :: Tumbler (n.) One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body; an acrobat.
Turner :: Turner (n.) A variety of pigeon; a tumbler.
Tumble-down :: Tumble-down (a.) Ready to fall; dilapidated; ruinous; as, a tumble-down house..
Tumble :: Tumble (v. t.) To disturb; to rumple; as, to tumble a bed..
Tumblerful :: Tumblerful (n.) As much as a tumbler will hold; enough to fill a tumbler.
Welter :: Welter (v. i.) To rise and fall, as waves; to tumble over, as billows..
Welter :: Welter (v. i.) To roll, as the body of an animal; to tumble about, especially in anything foul or defiling; to wallow..
Betumble :: Betumble (v. t.) To throw into disorder; to tumble.
Stumble :: Stumble (n.) A trip in walking or running.
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..
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