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Webster 1913 Edition
Tumble
Tum′ble
(tŭm′b’l)
, Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Tumbled
(tŭm′b’ld)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tumbling
(tŭm′blĭng)
.] [OE.
tumblen
, AS. tumbian
to turn heels over head, to dance violently; akin to D. tuimelen
to fall, Sw. tumla
, Dan. tumle
, Icel. tumba
; and cf. G. taumeln
to reel, to stagger.] 1.
To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one’s self about;
as, a person in pain
. tumbles
and tosses2.
To roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to be precipitated;
as, to
. tumble
from a scaffoldHe who
tumbles
from a tower surely has a greater blow than he who slides from a molehill. South.
3.
To play tricks by various movements and contortions of the body; to perform the feats of an acrobat.
Rowe.
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
.Tum′ble
,Verb.
T.
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 papers2.
To disturb; to rumple;
as, to
. tumble
a bedTum′ble
,Noun.
Act of tumbling, or rolling over; a fall.
Webster 1828 Edition
Tumble
TUM'BLE
,Verb.
I.
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.TUM'BLE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To disturb; to rumple; as, to tumble a bed.To tumble out, to throw or roll out; as, to tumble out casks from a store.
To tumble down, to throw down carelessly.
TUM'BLE
,Noun.
Definition 2024
tumble
tumble
English
Noun
tumble (plural tumbles)
- A fall.
- I took a tumble down the stairs and broke my tooth.
- An act of sexual intercourse.
- John Betjeman, Group Life: Letchworth
- Wouldn't it be jolly now, / To take our Aertex panters off / And have a jolly tumble in / The jolly, jolly sun?
- 1979, Martine, Sexual Astrology (page 219)
- When you've just had a tumble between the sheets and are feeling rumpled and lazy, she may want to get up so she can make the bed.
- John Betjeman, Group Life: Letchworth
Derived terms
Derived terms
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Translations
a fall
Verb
tumble (third-person singular simple present tumbles, present participle tumbling, simple past and past participle tumbled)
- (intransitive) To fall end over end; to roll.
- Robert South (1634–1716)
- He who tumbles from a tower surely has a greater blow than he who slides from a molehill.
- 1907, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “chapter IX”, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 4241346:
- “Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better. […]”
- Robert South (1634–1716)
- To perform gymnastics such as somersaults, rolls, and handsprings.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Rowe to this entry?)
- To roll over and over.
- 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
- The two animals tumbled over each other in their eagerness to get inside, and heard the door shut behind them with great joy and relief.
- 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
- (informal) To have sexual intercourse.
- (transitive) To smooth and polish a rough surface on relatively small parts.
- To muss, to make disorderly; to tousle or rumple.
- to tumble a bed
Derived terms
Translations
to fall end over end
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