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roomage


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Roomage  \Room"age\,  n.  [From  {Room}.  CF  {Rummage}.] 
  Space;  place  room  [Obs.]  --Sir  H.  Wotton. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rummage  \Rum"mage\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Rummaged};  p.  pr  &  vb 
  n.  {Rummaging}.] 
  1.  (Naut.)  To  make  room  in  as  a  ship,  for  the  cargo;  to  move 
  about  as  packages,  ballast,  so  as  to  permit  close 
  stowage;  to  stow  closely;  to  pack;  --  formerly  written 
  {roomage},  and  {romage}.  [Obs.] 
 
  They  might  bring  away  a  great  deal  more  than  they 
  do  if  they  would  take  pain  in  the  romaging. 
  --Hakluyt. 
 
  2.  To  search  or  examine  thoroughly  by  looking  into  every 
  corner,  and  turning  over  or  removing  goods  or  other 
  things  to  examine,  as  a  book,  carefully,  turning  over 
  leaf  after  leaf. 
 
  He  .  .  .  searcheth  his  pockets,  and  taketh  his  keys, 
  and  so  rummageth  all  his  closets  and  trunks. 
  --Howell. 
 
  What  schoolboy  of  us  has  not  rummaged  his  Greek 
  dictionary  in  vain  for  a  satisfactory  account!  --M. 
  Arnold.