tumbestert (tumbester)

[ME. also tombes ter, tom be stere, tymbester, tymbestere, tim be stere; Herodias douzter, that was a tum be stere , and tumblede long manner. They [Hottentots] have no Beds to lie on, but tumble down at night round the fire. Dampier , Voyages, I. 539. We stood or sat in a group,.. out of the way of the men when they should come tumbling aft to make sail or haul upon the ropes. W. C. Ru ell , A Strange Voyage, v. 4. To play mountebank tricks by various springs, balancings, posturings, and contortions of the body. You daunce worse than you tumble . Palsgrave , p. 147. 5t. To dance. The dougtir of Herodias daunside [ether tumblide , margin] in the myddil, and pleside Heroude. Wyclif , Mat. xiv. 6. Hyt telleth that Eroud [Herod] swore To here that tumbled yn the flore. MS . Harl . 1701, f. 19. ( Hall i well .) 6. To fall rapidly, as prices: as, fancy stocks have tumbled. [Commercial slang.] - To tumble home. Same as to tumble in (a). To tumble in. (a) Said of a ship's sides when they incline in above the extreme breadth. (b) To turn in; go to bed. - To tumble to, to recognize or understand; be up to: as, to tumble to another's scheme or game; also, to go at (work and the like) vigorously. [Slang.] The high words in a tragedy we call jaw-breakers, and say we can't tumble to that barrikin. Mayhew , London Labour and London Poor, I. 15. To tumble up. (a) To get out of bed; get up. [Slang.] Mr. Bailey... opened the coach door, let down the steps, and, giving Jonas a shake, cried, "We've got home, my flower! Tumble up then!" Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, xxviii. (b) Naut ., to come up hastily and in a scrambling way through the hatchway on a ship's deck, as a sailor or a number of sailors together: as, the starboard watch tum bled up . II. trans. 1. To turn over; to about as for examination or search; revolve in one's mind: usually with over . Tumbling it over and over in his thoughts,... he lost all patience. Bacon, Hist. Hen. VII., p. 95. They tumbled all their little Quivers o'er To chuse propitious Shafts. Prior , Henry and Emma. 2. To disorder; rumple: as, to tumble bedclothes. She had her bonnet in her hand (a bruised muslin one, with tumbled satin strings). E. S. Sheppard , Charles Auchester, i. 11. 3. To throw by chance or with violence; fling; pitch. With it a blow that laid him full low, And tumbl'd him into the brook. Robin Hood and Little John (Child's Ballads, V. 219). A girl bare-footed brings and tumbles Down on the pavement green-flesh melons. Browning , De Gustibus. he grantede to zeve hure whatevere he wolde bydde. MS. Harl. 1701, f. 8. ( Hall i well.) And ryght anon than comen tom be steres Fetys and smale, Whiche ben the verray deueles office res To kindle and blowe the fyr of [lecher ye]. Chaucer, Pardoner's Tale, 1. 15. [In this pa age the word is the same as the above, but it is an erroneous translation of the Old French tymbere e, a female player on the tambour ( tymbre ).] tumble (tum'bl), v.; pret. and pp. tumbled, ppr. tumbling. [E. dial. also tummle; meln = Sw. tumla = Dan. tumle, tumble, stagger, wallow; freq. of ME. tumben, tomben, IMG:content-1045.jpg:[blocks in formation] cast to the ground; fling headlong. Jerusalem hat he often tyme ben destroyed, and the Walles abated and beten doun and tombled in to the Vale. Mandeville , Travels, p. 95. And wilt thou still be hammering treachery, To tumble down thy husband and thyself From top of honour to disgrace's feet? Shak., 2 Hen. VI., i. 2. 48. This ability to tumble a hare at full speed with the shot gun is no mean accomplishment. Sportsman's Gazetteer , p. 95. 5. To polish by revolution in a tumbling-box. Small castings can be tumbled and thus deprived of much of their adhering scale and sand. Wahl , Galvanoplastic Manipulations, p. 529. To tumble in, in carp., to fit, as a piece of timber, into other work. - Tumbled up and down, agitated; per plexed. They were greatly tumbled up and down in their minds, and knew not what to do. Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progre ,