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Definition of Rumpling
1. rumple [v] - See also: rumple
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rumpling
Literary usage of Rumpling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"Look here," cried Blast, taking off his hat and rumpling up his hair : " there
's a change ! Once as black as a crow ; and now—oh, my dear friend"—St. Giles ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: Band by Graham Willmore, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Frederick Luard Wollaston, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber, Henry Davison (1839)
"He was then asked what rumpling said when he planted the willow. ... The statement
made by rumpling was admissible on three grounds. ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench, and by Sandford Nevile, Sir Erskine Perry, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber, Court of Exchequer Chamber, Court of King's Bench, Great Britain (1839)
"A witness was called, who stated, that about forty planted a years ago, one
rumpling, who was dead, was the occupier willow near of certam meadows near the ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: Band by Graham Willmore, Frederick Luard Wollaston, Henry Davison, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1839)
"He was then asked what rumpling said when he planted the willow. ... The statement
made by rumpling was admissible on three grounds. ..."
5. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1843)
"... and mugging, and lugging, and tugging, And rumpling and crumpling, and crumpling
and rumpling, And mauling, and hauling, and still caterwauling. ..."
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