Adjacent Words
To trench atTo trifle with
To trim in
To trim up
To troop the
To trot out
To trump up
To truss a person
To truss up
To trust
To trust in
To trust on
To try a fall
To try conclusions
To try on
To turn
To turn a cold shoulder to
To turn a corner
To turn a flange
To turn a hostile army
To turn a penny
To turn about
To turn adrift
To turn again
To turn against
To turn an honest penny
To turn around one's finger
To turn aside
To turn away
To turn back
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
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.
