Tumble
- n. Act of tumbling, or rolling over; a fall.
- v. i. To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one’s self about; as, a person on pain tumbles and tosses.
- v. i. To roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to be precipitated; as, to tumble from a scaffold.
- v. i. To play tricks by various movements and contortions of the body; to perform the feats of an acrobat.
- 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.
- v. t. To disturb; to rumple; as, to tumble a bed.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.