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Webster 1913 Edition

Tumbling

Tum′bling

,
Adj.
&
vb.
Noun.
from
Tumble
,
Verb.
Tumbling barrel
.
Same as
Rumble
,
Noun.
, 4.
–
Tumbling bay
,
an overfall, or weir, in a canal.

Webster 1828 Edition

Tumbling

TUM'BLING

,
ppr.
Rolling about; falling; disturbing; rumpling.
Tumbling-home, in a ship, is the inclination of the top-sides from a perpendicular, towards the center of the ship; or the part of a ship which falls inward above the extreme breadth.

Definition 2024

tumbling

tumbling

English

Verb

tumbling

  1. present participle of tumble

Noun

tumbling ‎(plural tumblings)

  1. The act of something that tumbles.
    • James Howell
      These so many conquests must needs bring with them many tumblings and tossings, many disturbances and changes in government […]
    • 1838, Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist (page 176)
      Having feasted our souls with this sublime spectacle, we ministered to the wants of the body by a plentiful breakfast, and about noon we commenced the descent, rendered ludicrous enough by various tumblings and sprawlings on the part of the more inexpert mountaineers.

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