Hypertext Webster Gateway: "tumble"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Tumble \Tum"ble\, n.
Act of tumbling, or rolling over; a fall.
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)
Tumble \Tum"ble\, v. t.
1. To turn over; to turn or throw about, as for examination
or search; to roll or move in a rough, coarse, or
unceremonious manner; to throw down or headlong; to
precipitate; -- sometimes with over, about, etc.; as, to
tumble books or papers.
2. To disturb; to rumple; as, to tumble a bed.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
tumble
n 1: an acrobatic feat of rolling or turning end over end
2: a sudden drop from an upright position; "he had a nasty
spill on the ice" [syn: {spill}, {fall}]
v 1: fall down, as if collapsing [syn: {topple}]
2: cause to topple or tumble by pushing [syn: {topple}]
3: roll over and over, back and forth
4: fly around, as of paper on the sidewalk, or clothes in a
dryer, or rising smoke in the wind [syn: {whirl}, {skirl},
{whirl around}]
5: fall apart; also used metaphorically: "Negociations broke
down" [syn: {crumble}, {crumple}, {break down}, {collapse}]
6: throw together in a confused mass; "They tumbled the teams
with no apparent pattern"
7: understand, usually after some initial difficulty [syn: {catch
on}, {get onto}, {latch on}, {cotton on}, {twig}, {get it}]
8: fall suddenly and sharply; "Prices tumbled after the
devaluation of the currency"
9: dry clothes by putting them in tumbling barrel, where they
are whirled about in hot air; "Wash in warm water and
tumble dry"
10: suffer a sudden downfall, overthrow, or defeat
11: do gymnastics, roll and turn skillfully
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