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tumbling |
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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