3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tumble  \Tum"ble\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Tumbled};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Tumbling}.]  [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  on  pain  tumbles  and  tosses. 
 
  2.  To  roll  down  to  fall  suddenly  and  violently;  to  be 
  precipitated;  as  to  tumble  from  a  scaffold. 
 
  He  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}. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tumbling  \Tum"bling\, 
  a.  &  vb  n.  from  {Tumble},  v. 
 
  {Tumbling  barrel}.  Same  as  {Rumble},  n.,  4. 
 
  {Tumbling  bay},  an  overfall,  or  weir,  in  a  canal. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  tumbling 
  adj  1:  moving  in  surges  and  billows  and  rolls;  "billowing  smoke 
  from  burning  houses";  "the  rolling  fog";  "the  rolling 
  sea";  "the  tumbling  water  of  the  rapids"  [syn:  {billowing}, 
  {rolling}] 
  2:  pitching  headlong  with  a  rolling  or  twisting  movement;  "a 
  violent  tumbling  fall" 
  n  :  the  gymnastic  moves  of  an  acrobat  [syn:  {acrobatics}] 

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