rummage

suomi-englanti sanakirja

rummage englannista suomeksi

To arrange (cargo, goods, etc.) in the hold of a ship; to move or rearrange such goods.
To search a vessel for smuggled goods.

(ux)

To search something thoroughly and with disregard for the way in which things were arranged.
(RQ:Howell Epistolae)searcheth his pockets, and taketh his keys, and so rummageth all his closets and trunks.
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(quote-journal)
To hastily search for something in a confined space and among many items by carelessly turning things over or pushing things aside.
(RQ:Lincoln Pratt's Patients)and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.
A thorough search, usually resulting in disorder.
(quote-text)|title=letter to the Hon. H. S. Conway|passage=He has made such a general rummage and reform in the office of matrimony.
Commotion; disturbance.
A disorganized collection of miscellaneous objects; a jumble.
A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship.
The act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage.

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