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▪ I. tumbling, vbl. n.|ˈtʌmblɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of tumble v. in various senses.
a1425Cursor M. 13195 (Trin.) In euel tyme bigan she tomblyng To make his heed of be brouȝt. c1440Promp. Parv. 506/1 Tumlynge, volutacio. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §102 It apperethe by stampynge of the horse or tomblynge. c1580J. Jeffere Bugbears Epil., Song ii. in Archiv Stud. Neu. Apr. (1897), With joomblynges, with foomblynges, with toomblynges. 1611Cotgr., Basteleuse, a woman that makes a profession of Jugling, Tumbling, and such other idle, or base exercises. 1660Burney κέρδ. Δῶρον (1661) 30 The tumblings of the Leviathan in the Seas. 1687Fountainhall Decis. (1759) I. 440 Physicians attested the employment of tumbling would kill her. a1774Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 456 Lucretius..granted that the atoms,..after infinite tumblings and tossings about, would fall into their former situation. 1870Lowell Study Wind. 2 We can explain the odd tumbling of rooks in the air.
b. tumbling home: the inward inclination of the upper part of a ship's sides; opposed to flare n.1 4: see tumble v. 11. Also tumbling-in.
1664E. Bushnell Compl. Shipwright 11 Then set off the Tumbling Home, at the Height of the two first Haanses. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1789), Encabanement, the tumbling-home of a ship's side from the lower-deck-beam upwards, to the gunnel. 1832Encycl. Amer. XI. 367/2 Nothing can be urged in favor of tumbling in..but that it brings the guns nearer the centre. c1850Rudim. Navig. (Weale) 157 The topsides of three-decked ships have the greatest tumbling-home, for the purpose of clearing the upper works from the smoke and fire of the lower guns.
▪ II. ˈtumbling, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That tumbles, in various senses of the verb; falling; tossing; rolling headlong; also fig.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. iii. pr. ix. 67 (Camb. MS.) Trowesthow þat ther be any thing in thise erthely mortal towmblynge thinges? 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. (Percy Soc.) 131 Stere well the frayle tombling barge. c1620Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 109 Where tumbling billowes bath the very sky. 1638Junius Paint. Ancients 306 A tumbling and wallowing horse. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) II. 128 All that I owed came like a tumbling house upon me. 1837W. Irving Capt. Bonneville II. ix. 130 Down the ravine of a tumbling stream, the commencement of some future river. 1873Black Pr. Thule vi, This tumbling mass of dark stones standing high over the green hollows.
Hence ˈtumblingly adv., in a tumbling manner.
1620Thomas Lat. Dict., Volutatim,..rollingly, tumblingly, tossingly. |