Definition of Tumblings

1. tumbling [n] - See also: tumbling

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tumblings

tumbler
tumbler pigeon
tumblerful
tumblerfuls
tumblers
tumblersful
tumbles
tumbleset
tumblesets
tumbleth
tumbleweed
tumbleweed moment
tumbleweeds
tumbling
tumbling mill
tumblings (current term)
tumbrel
tumbrels
tumbril
tumbrils
tumbu dermal myiasis
tumchaite
tumefacient
tumefaction
tumefactions
tumefied
tumefies
tumefy
tumefying
tumentia

Literary usage of Tumblings

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

1. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1808)
"These so many conquests must needs bring with them many tumblings and tossings, many disturbances and changes in government ; yet I have observed, that, ..."

2. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1808)
"These so many conquests must needs bring with them many tumblings and tossings, many disturbances and changes in government; yet I have observed, that, ..."

3. History of Friedrich the Second: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"Nay withal, stupid as he is, our dear John, — ever, after infinite tumblings, and spoken platitudes innumerable from barrel-heads and parliament-benches, ..."

4. Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle (1843)
"Nay, withal, stupid as he is, our dear John—ever, after infinite tumblings, and spoken platitudes innumerable from barrel-heads and parliament-benches, ..."

5. Occasional Essays on Various Subjects: Chiefly Political and Historical by Francis Maseres (1809)
"... muft needs bring with them many tumblings and ... tumblings, it retained ft ill the forme of a Monarchy, ..."

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