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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Tumble \Tum"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tumbled; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Tumbling.] [OE. tumblen, AS. tumbian to turn heels over
     head, to dance violently; akin to D. tuimelen to fall, Sw.
     tumla, Dan. tumle, Icel. tumba; and cf. G. taumeln to reel,
     to stagger.]
     1. To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about;
        as, a person on pain tumbles and tosses.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to be
        precipitated; as, to tumble from a scaffold.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              He who tumbles from a tower surely has a greater
              blow than he who slides from a molehill. --South.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. To play tricks by various movements and contortions of the
        body; to perform the feats of an acrobat. --Rowe.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     To tumble home (Naut.), to incline inward, as the sides of
        a vessel, above the bends or extreme breadth; -- used esp.
        in the phrase tumbling home. Cf. Wall-sided.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Tumbling \Tum"bling\,
     a. & vb. n. from Tumble, v.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Tumbling barrel. Same as Rumble, n., 4.
  
     Tumbling bay, an overfall, or weir, in a canal.
        [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  Tumble \Tum"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tumbled; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Tumbling.] [OE. tumblen, AS. tumbian to turn heels over
     head, to dance violently; akin to D. tuimelen to fall, Sw.
     tumla, Dan. tumle, Icel. tumba; and cf. G. taumeln to reel,
     to stagger.]
     1. To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about;
        as, a person on pain tumbles and tosses.
  
     2. To roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to be
        precipitated; as, to tumble from a scaffold.
  
              He who tumbles from a tower surely has a greater
              blow than he who slides from a molehill. --South.
  
     3. To play tricks by various movements and contortions of the
        body; to perform the feats of an acrobat. --Rowe.
  
     To tumble home (Naut.), to incline inward, as the sides of
        a vessel, above the bends or extreme breadth; -- used esp.
        in the phrase tumbling home. Cf. Wall-sided.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  Tumbling \Tum"bling\,
     a. & vb. n. from Tumble, v.
  
     Tumbling barrel. Same as Rumble, n., 4.
  
     Tumbling bay, an overfall, or weir, in a canal.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]


  tumbling
       adj 1: moving in surges and billows and rolls; "billowing smoke
              from burning houses"; "the rolling fog"; "the rolling
              sea"; "the tumbling water of the rapids" [syn: billowing,
               rolling]
       2: pitching headlong with a rolling or twisting movement; "a
          violent tumbling fall"
       n : the gymnastic moves of an acrobat [syn: acrobatics]

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  tumbling
     n.
     The act of something that tumbles.
     vb.
     (present participle of en tumble nocat=1)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]


  tumbling
     n.
     The act of something that tumbles.
     vb.
     (present participle of en tumble nocat=1)

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]


  tumbling
     n.
     The act of something that tumbles.
     vb.
     (present participle of en tumble nocat=1)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]


  tumbling
     n.
     The act of something that tumbles.
     vb.
     (present participle of en tumble nocat=1)

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  tumbling
     Englanti vb.
     (en-v-taivm t umbl ing e)

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]


  Tumbling /tˈʌmblɪŋ/
  الهبوط

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]


  tumbling /tˈʌmblɪŋ/
  převracení