Definition of Rummaging

1. Verb. (present participle of rummage) ¹

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Definition of Rummaging

1. rummage [v] - See also: rummage

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rummaging

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

Literary usage of Rummaging

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

1. Letters from the South: Written During an Excursion in the Summer of 1816 by James Kirke Paulding (1817)
"... for in rummaging my pocket for a pencil to note down some of his remarks, which I thought rather apt, I happened to bring out a half-eagle, ..."

2. London: Being an Accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis by David Hughson (1805)
"... nor to prohibit any citizen dealin; coarse heavy goods, from employing any yearly seme living with him; in the weighing, rummaging, lading DIE- landing ..."

3. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"Barton at once began rummaging through his few books on heraldry, and after remaining up nearly all that night, retired believing that the question of an ..."

4. The Monthly Magazine by Richard Phillips (1796)
"... he rofe next morning by dawn of day, and wa» fuund rummaging the little library, .... rummaging ..."

5. Three Years in Canada: An Account of the Actual State of the Country in 1826 by John Mactaggart (1829)
"... rummaging. THIS is the art of exploring whatever lies in a state of nature, or in one that may be considered similar; it may also be explained as a ..."

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