Tumble | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Tūm'ble, v. i.

verbintransitive

(tūm′bl), v. i. [imp. & p. p. TUMBLED; p. pr. & vb. n. TUMBLING.] [M. H. Ger. tumbeln, tämeln, O. H. Ger. tamillōn, tamōn, Prov. Ger. tummeln, N. H. Ger. taumeln, D. tuimelen, O. D. tummen, Sw. tumla, Dan. tumle, Icel. tumba, trumba, A-S. tumbian; It. tombolare, tomare, Sp. & Pr. tumbar, Pg. & Pr. tombar, Fr. tomber, O. Fr. tumber, tumer.]

To roll about by turning one way and the other; to roll; as, a person in pain tumbles and tosses.
To roll down; to come down 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 mole-hill. South. 3. To play mountebank tricks by various librations and movements of the body. Rowe. To tumble home (Naut.), to incline, as the sides of a vessel, inward above the bends or extreme breadth;—used chiefly in the phrase tumbling home, and opposed to wall-sided.

Tŭm'ble, v. t.

verbtransitive

(tŭm/bl), v. t. 1. To turn over; to turn or throw about for examination or searching; to roll or move in a rough, coarse, or unceremonious manner; to throw headlong; to precipitate;—sometimes with over; as, to tumble over books or papers. 2. To disturb; to rumple; as, to tumble a bed. To tumble down, to throw down carelessly.—To tumble out, to throw or roll out; as, to tumble out casks from a store.

Tŭm'ble, n.

noun

(tŭm/bl), n. The act of tumbling or rolling over; a fall.