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Definition of Rummaged
1. rummage [v] - See also: rummage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rummaged
Literary usage of Rummaged
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Year of Consolation by Fanny Kemble (1847)
"shivering on the cold stone pavement, under cold stone arches, while my trunks
and carpet-bags were again rummaged. What an intolerable nuisance, ..."
2. Memoirs of Charles Lee Lewes: Containing Anecdotes, Historical and by Charles Lee Lewes (1805)
"Mr. Collins knows they existed from twenty to thirty years before ever he rummaged
them, and are now the standing greenroom jokes of every theatre in ..."
3. Verse & Worse by John Otway Percy Bland (1902)
"... the coolie rummaged every box for eggs. Result, nil. This went on for a
fortnight, until my wife insisted that there was fowl treachery at work ;—the ..."
4. Verse & Worse by John Otway Percy Bland (1902)
"... and proceeded to feed the birds on a diet which should by rights have drawn
eggs from a stuffed owl, and every morning the coolie rummaged every box for ..."
5. Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the by Arnold James Cooley (1892)
"... the ca»o 2 or 3 pounds of moist sugar (foots) may be ' rummaged' into each
... may be added to the beer, which in a fortnight should b« rummaged well, ..."