Definition of Rummages

1. Verb. (third-person singular of rummage) ¹

2. Noun. (obsolete) (plural of rummage) ¹

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Definition of Rummages

1. rummage [v] - See also: rummage

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rummages

ruminative
ruminatively
ruminator
ruminators
ruminococcin
ruminoreticulum
rumkin
rumkins
rumly
rummage
rummage sale
rummage sales
rummaged
rummager
rummagers
rummages (current term)
rummaging
rummer
rummers
rummest
rummier
rummies
rummiest
rummily
rummish
rummy
rummy-nose tetra
rummy nose
rummy noses
rumness

Literary usage of Rummages

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Drama and the Stage by Ludwig Lewisohn (1922)
"She "rummages in his brain as one rummages in drawers." She diminishes the preciousness of love by her eagerness and the haste of her consents. ..."

2. Yoga: Or, Transformation; a Comparative Statement of the Various Religious by William Joseph Flagg (1898)
"But he who rummages the records concerning these revelations until he finds out, as he will if he rummages deep, that all are from one and the same occult, ..."

3. Yoga: Or, Transformation; a Comparative Statement of the Various Religious by William Joseph Flagg (1898)
"But he who rummages the records concerning these revelations until he finds out, as he will if he rummages deep, that all are from one and the same occult, ..."

4. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (1887)
"... a single suspender of yellow listing ; he runs, lies in wait, rummages about, wastes time, blackens pipes, swears like a convict, haunts the wine-shop, ..."

5. The American in Paris by John Sanderson (1838)
"There is an officer who examines; we know each other ; he knocks off the top of the boxes, rummages the calico with great fuss and ceremony, and the silks ..."

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