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Definition of Rummage
1. Verb. Search haphazardly. "We rummaged through the drawers"
2. Noun. A jumble of things to be given away.
3. Noun. A thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion). "He gave the attic a good rummage but couldn't find his skis"
Definition of Rummage
1. n. A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship; also, the act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage; -- formerly written romage.
2. v. t. 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.
3. v. i. To search a place narrowly.
Definition of Rummage
1. Verb. (transitive nautical) to arrange (cargo, goods, etc.) in the hold of a ship; to move or rearrange such goods. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive nautical) to search a vessel for smuggled goods. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) to search something which contains many items hastily by carelessly turning things over or pushing things aside. ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) to search something thoroughly and with disregard for the way in which things were arranged ¹
5. Verb. (intransitive) to hastily search for something in a confined space and among many items by carelessly turning things over or pushing things aside. ¹
6. Noun. (obsolete) commotion; disturbance ¹
7. Noun. a thorough search, usually resulting in a disorder ¹
8. Noun. an unorganized collection of miscellaneous objects; a jumble ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rummage
1. to search thoroughly through [v -MAGED, -MAGING, -MAGES]
Medical Definition of Rummage
1. 1. 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. "They night 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) Origin: Rummaged; Rummaging. 1. A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship; also, the act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage; formerly written romage. 2. A searching carefully by looking into every corner, and by turning things over. "He has such a general rummage and reform in the office of matrimony." (Walpole) Rummage sale, a clearance sale of unclaimed goods in a public store, or of odds and ends which have accumulated in a shop. Origin: For roomage, fr. Room; hence originally, a making room, a packing away closely. See Room. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
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