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The vbl. n. and ppl. adj. in combinations and special collocations, as tumbling boy, tumbling girl, tumbling-ground, tumbling lass, tumbling-trick; also tumbling-barrel = tumbling-box; tumbling-bay, an outfall from a river, canal, or reservoir; a weir; also, the pool into which the water falls from this; tumbling bob, a weighted lever or arm in machinery, which when moved to a certain point falls and produces some motion; tumbling-box, a rotating drum in which small articles (usually of metal) are cleaned and polished by attrition; also used in dissolving and mixing paints, varnishes, etc.; tumbling car, a tumbrel; † tumbling cast, a somersault; a fall, overthrow; tumbling crank: see quot.; tumbling gear, a gear with one or more idle wheels on a swinging frame for producing reverse motion; † tumbling glass, a tumbler; tumbling joint: see quot.; tumbling metre, cf. tumbling verse; tumbling-mill, a tumbling-box or set of these (Cent. Dict. Suppl. 1909); tumbling-room, space for tumbling; spec. a room in which a tumbling-box is set up; tumbling shaft, a revolving shaft carrying cams producing intermittent motion; tumbling-star, an iron ball with projecting spikes which is put into the tumbling-box to stir up the polishing or abrading medium (Cent. Dict. Suppl. 1909); tumbling stone, a loose stone embedded in clay; a boulder: = tumbler 8; tumbling tom, in Coal-mining: see quot. 1883; also Sc. (tumbling Tam), a thick heavy halfpenny of George III's reign; tumbling-trough, in sulphuric acid manufacture, a receptacle which pours nitric acid from each of its two balancing chambers in turn (Cent. Dict. 1891); tumbling verse, a kind of irregular anapæstic verse: see quot.; tumbling water-cracker, a kind of aquatic firework; tumbling weight = tumbling bob; tumbling-wheel, a revolving chamber in which small wooden objects are smoothed by attrition; cf. tumbling-box.
1724Jrnl. Ho. Comm. XX. 382 The water is to be divided by an overfall or *tumbling bay. 1795J. Phillips Hist. Inland Navig. Add. 90 To preserve the water of the same river, a tumbling bay is to be erected. 1847Addison Law of Contracts ii. i. §1. (1883) 244 The lessee of a water-mill..has no right to alter the height of the tumbling-bay. 1891A. J. Foster Ouse 136 A fine large ‘tumbling bay’, as the pools below the sluices are sometimes called.
1824R. Stuart Hist. Steam Engine 73 A weight or *tumbling bob, or Y piece, to give the necessary momentum to the movement of the injection-cock lever.
1877Knight Dict. Mech., *Tumbling-box,..a cylindrical or barrel-shaped vessel..mounted on an axis so as to be revolved by a winch or pulley. Called also rumble, rolling barrel.
1840Dickens Old C. Shop xi, He sent an express to the wharf for the *tumbling boy. 1881Daily News 2 June 5 The little tumbling boy and his oppressors.
1811in Chamb. Jrnl. 11 Jan. (1845) 31/2 The chief part..was brought from the sand⁓beds of Esk in *tumbling cars.
1530Palsgr. 179 Sombresault, a *tumblyng caste. 1677Needham 2nd Pacquet Adv. 31 They are for a Tumbling-Cast to the present rulers of Church and State.
1886J. Barrowman Sc. Mining Terms 69 *Tumbling-crank, a crank on the end of the pumping shaft for giving reciprocating motion.
1793Trans. Soc. Arts (ed. 2) V. 202 The common *Tumbling Geer, as used in the Fire Engine.
1854Dickens Hard T. vii. 52 Tom Gradgrind's whim, ma'am, of bringing up the *tumbling-girl. 1896W. K. Leask H. Miller ii. 39 A tumbling-girl who had been sold by her parents to a travelling mountebank.
1803MS. Diary in N. & Q. 8th Ser. (1893) III. 168/1 Had a few friends to dine, tried my new *tumbling-glasses; very successful, all got drunk early.
1861Sat. Rev. 14 Dec. 604 A field is lent for a circus or a *tumbling-ground for an acrobat.
1844Stephens Bk. Farm III. 981 The English hay-tedding machine..having a series of revolving rakes... The rakes are attached to the wheels by a *tumbling-joint,..when any undue resistance is opposed to a rake..the rake falls back till the obstruction has been passed.
1687Fountainhall Decis. (1759) I. 439 Reid the Mountebank pursues Scot of Harden..for stealing away from him a little girl, called the *Tumbling-Lassie, that danced upon his stage.
1847Proc. Philol. Soc. III. 103 When this licence is taken frequently the metre becomes of that species..called..‘*tumbling metres’.
1860G. Meredith Evan Harrington viii, No *tumbling-room for the wine, eh? 1901Trans. Amer. Inst. Electr. Engin. 562 (Cent. Supp.).
c1790J. Imison Sch. Art i. 36 It [the universal joint] is of great use in cotton mills, where the *tumbling shafts are continued to a great distance from the moving power.
1857J. Robertson in Charteris Life xii. (1863) 338 There are many sloughs and *tumbling stones on the road. 1881Borrings & Sinkings II. 2 (E.D.D.) Strong blue clay with large tumbling stones.
1826Galt Last of Lairds iv, I gave him a whole penny—twa new bawbees, gude weight, for it was then the days o' the *tumbling Tams. 1883Gresley Coal-Mining Gloss., Tumbling Toms, tippers that turn completely over.
1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. Induct. ii. 140 Is it not a Comontie, a Christmas gambold, or a *tumbling tricke? 1673Hickeringill Greg. F. Greyb. 302 They coming not to church to see tumbling tricks and hocus juglings.
1585Jas. I Ess. Poesie (Arb.) 63 Thir hes twa short, and ane lang throuch all the lyne, quhen they keip ordour: albeit the maist pairt of thame be out of ordour, and keipis na kynde nor reule of Flowing, and for that cause are callit *Tumbling verse.
1799G. Smith Laboratory I. 24 Charges for *Tumbling Water-crackers. Mealed powder.., nitre.., and charcoal. [Cf. 21 Water-crackers, which turn in the water.]
1903Nature 19 Nov. 68/1 Barney's illustration of the Dudley Castle engine (erected in 1712) was made in 1719, and contains the plug-frame and *tumbling-weight device... It is possible that the tumbling-weight had just been added for actuating the steam-valve. |