RUMMAGE
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Rum"mage (?; 48), n. [For roomage, fr. room; hence originally, a making room, a packing away closely. See Room.] 1. (Naut.) A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship; also, the act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage; -- formerly written romage. [Obs.]
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2. A searching carefully by looking into every corner, and by turning things over.
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He has made such a general rummage and reform in the office of matrimony.
Walpole.
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Rummage sale, a clearance sale of unclaimed goods in a public store, or of odds and ends which have accumulated in a shop. Simmonds.
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Rum"mage, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rummaged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Rummaging (?).] 1. (Naut.) To make room in, as a ship, for the cargo; to move about, as packages, ballast, so as to permit close stowage; to stow closely; to pack; -- formerly written roomage, and romage. [Obs.]
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They might bring away a great deal more than they do, if they would take pain in the romaging.
Hakluyt.
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2. To search or examine thoroughly by looking into every corner, and turning over or removing goods or other things; to examine, as a book, carefully, turning over leaf after leaf.
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He . . . searcheth his pockets, and taketh his keys, and so rummageth all his closets and trunks.
Howell.
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What schoolboy of us has not rummaged his Greek dictionary in vain for a satisfactory account!
M. Arnold.
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Rum"mage, v. i. To search a place narrowly.
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I have often rummaged for old books in Little Britain and Duck Lane.
Swift.
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[His house] was haunted with a jolly ghost, that . . .
. . . rummaged like a rat.
Tennyson.
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