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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TUM'BLING, ppr. Rolling about; falling; disturbing; rumpling.
Tumbling-home, in a ship, is the inclination of the top-sides from a perpendicular, towards the center of the ship; or the part of a ship which falls inward above the extreme breadth.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the gymnastic moves of an acrobat [syn: acrobatics, tumbling]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Date: 1604 the skill, practice, or sport of executing gymnastic feats (as somersaults and handsprings) without the use of apparatus II. adjective Date: circa 1916 tipped or slanted out of the vertical — used especially of a cattle brand

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tumbling Tum"bling, a. & vb. n. from Tumble, v. Tumbling barrel. Same as Rumble, n., 4. Tumbling bay, an overfall, or weir, in a canal.