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tumble-
the verb-stem in combination:
1. with substantives: tumble-action, the tumbling action of a tumble-drier; tumble-bug = tumble-dung; tumble-car, -cart: see quots.; tumble-dung, name in U.S. for a scarabæid beetle which rolls up balls of dung, in which it deposits its eggs and in which the larvæ go through their transformations; a dung-beetle; also attrib.; tumble fruit, fallen fruit, windfalls; tumble-rose, a species of the parrot-fish, Scarus cæruleus, found on the Atlantic coast from southern U.S. to Brazil (Cent. Dict. Suppl. 1909); † tumble-turd = tumble-dung; tumble-weed, name in U.S. for various plants which form a globular bush which in late summer is broken off and rolled about by the wind; a rolling weed (rolling ppl. a. 6).
1958Sunday Times 9 Mar. 22/6 Here [in an electric washing machine] *tumble-action replaces a wringer. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 11 Dec. 9/1 Do not use tumble-action dryer.
1805R. Parkinson Tour Amer. 362 A kind of beetle, called a *tumble-bug,..in the summer forms a cave in the earth. 1848Lowell Biglow Papers Ser. i. ii. 62 note, Tumblebug. 1868Rep. U.S. Commissioner Agric. (1869) 86 The best known and most common beetle of this family in this country is the Canton lævis, usually termed the tumble-bug.
1794Bailey & Culley Agric. Cumberld. 31 We suppose they had the name of *tumble carrs, from the axle being made fast in the wheels, and the whole turning or tumbling round together.
1887Suppl. to Jamieson s.v., The *tumble-cart, tumbler, or car, continued in use in the upland districts till the beginning of the present century.
1775R. Twiss Trav. Portugal & Sp. 247 The beetle, known by the name of *tumble-dung. 1798in Spirit Pub. Jrnls. (1799) II. 355 The scarabæus carnifex, or tumble-dung-beetle. 1880New Virginians I. 103 The humble rusty-black ‘tumbledung’.
1891B'ham Weekly Post 8 Aug. 4/7 Babies, like *tumble fruit, everywhere.
1754Catesby Carolina II. App., The *Tumble Turds. Scarabæus pillularis Americanus. Scarabæus carnifex, L.
1887Amer. Nat. Oct. 930 Amarantus albus, the common *tumble-weed.
2. with adverbs: tumble home, in a ship, = tumbling home (tumbling vbl. n. b); also transf. of a motor vehicle; tumble-over, n. an act of falling over; concr. a toy so weighted that it always takes a position of equilibrium; also attrib. inclined to fall down, rickety, tottering; tumble-up, a tumbler designed to be placed upside down on the neck of a carafe. See also tumble-down.
1833T. Richardson Merc. Marine Archit. 13 Giving only six inches *tumble home of the topside. 1874Thearle Naval Archit. 60 When the ship has considerable beam, the breadth of the channel is kept within reasonable limits by giving a ‘tumble home’ to the top-sides. 1924Motor 7 Oct. 450/2 The body is of particularly pleasing lines, with a V windscreen and tumble-home stern. 1968Motor Industry Res. Rep. ix. 25/1 Decreases due to increasing the canopy tumble-home.
1883Black Shandon Bells xxx, But the gable of the house is a leetle *tumble-over, isn't it? 1895Outing (U.S.) XXVI. 380/1 Those lead-weighted, pith ‘tumble-overs’, with which we played when children. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VI. 51 He was suddenly seized with intense darting pain in the region of the heart..accompanied by a sensation of ‘tumble over’ of the organ.
1891Sale Catal. Glass Wks. Stourbridge, Seventy-one *tumble-ups. |