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▪ I. rummage, n.|ˈrʌmɪdʒ|
Forms: 6–7 romage, roomage, 7 rommage, rumidg, 8, 9 rummage.
[Orig. an aphetic adoption of older F. (also Sp.) arrumage (mod. arrimage), f. arrumer (mod. arrimer), = Sp. and Pg. arrumar, of doubtful origin. In later use f. the verb.]
1.
†a. Naut. The arranging of casks, etc., in the hold of a vessel. Obs.
1526in Househ. Ord. (1790) 195 Cellaridge, Cranage, Sponage, Romage, and Carridge of Wine, {pstlg}100 0s. 0d. 1688Holme Armoury iii. xv. (Roxb.) 40/1 The Quarter Maister hath the charg of the hould for stowage, rommage, and trimming the ship.
b. Miscellaneous articles, lumber; rubbish.
1598W. Phillip tr. Linschoten 151 Among other romage that stood vpon the hatches, there were certaine hennes cages. Ibid. 168 All chestes, pottes, fattes, and other roomage that are not stowed vnder hatches, being throwne ouer borde into the sea. 1847Halliw., Rummage, lumber, rubbish. West. 1880Cornwall Gloss., Rummage, rubbish. ‘A good riddance to bad rummage.’
†c. Place of stowage or storage; storage capacity. Obs.
1598W. Phillip tr. Linschoten 164 They likewise haue a Chest in the roomage, free of fraight. a1639Wotton Surv. Educ. in Reliq. (1672) 81 In the Oeconomical Providence of Nature, (as I may term it,) there is good store of roomage and receipt where those powers are stowed.
2. Bustle, commotion, turmoil. Obs. exc. Sc.
1575Durh. Deposit. (Surtees) 304 Ther was such a dyn and rom[a]ge in the streit emangest neighbours. 1602Shakes. Ham. i. i. 107 This (I take it) Is..the cheefe head Of this post-hast, and Romage in the Land. 1882Jamieson's Sc. Dict. IV. 77/1 Rummage, an obstreperous din.
3. a. An overhauling search.
1753H. Walpole Lett. (1846) II. 476 A general rummage and reform in the office of matrimony. 1786F. Burney Diary 29 July, My rummages and business sometimes occupy me uninterruptedly to those hours. 1813Moore Mem. (1853) I. 364, I took the opportunity of a lift to come on here for a last rummage of the library before the bad weather sets in. 1833T. Hook Love & Pride, Snowdon v, Which were now, after the general rummage, returned to their lawful owner. 1873C. Keene Let. in Life vii. (1892) 148, I shall have a rummage for it among the old music-book shops.
b. spec. A thorough search of a vessel by a Customs examining officer. Also attrib.
1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 585. 1876 G. D. Ham Rev. & Mercantile Vade-M. 274 The Examining Officer and the waterman is to..make a strict rummage in all parts of the vessel. Ibid. 635 To make a memorandum to that effect at the foot of the rummage account.
4. Special combs.: rummage goods (see quot. 1871); rummage sale, (a) (see quot. 1858); (b) a kind of charity bazaar; also attrib. and fig.
1871Echo 25 Jan., Seizures made for smuggling and *rummage goods—that is, goods out of date in warehouse. 1893Daily News 24 June 8/1 Sale of Rummage Goods from Red Lion and other wharves, and Salvage ex-Hispania s.s.
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, *Rummage-sale, a clearance sale of unclaimed goods at the docks, or of odds and ends left in a warehouse. 1887Times 30 Nov. 1 Rummage Sale, by order of the proprietors of Wilson's Wharf. 1890Stratford on Avon Herald 19 Dec. 3/1 A novel but most successful experiment was tried by way of what was termed a ‘rummage sale’. 1895N. & Q. 8th Ser. VIII. 308 It is almost impossible to dispose of gentlemen's hats at rummage sales. 1910Beerbohm Let. 15 Nov. (1964) 192 It will be a different sort of exhibition..: a retrospective and rummage-sale affair. 1912Strand Mag. Aug. 155 Good wickets at rummage-sale prices. 1922Joyce Ulysses 737 Rummage sale a lot of trash. 1973Black World Sept. 62 Your black skin Loose as a rummage sale coat. 1977Time 24 Oct. 48/3 The Road shows were rummage sales of stuff out of vaudeville, burlesque—marvelously shoddy masterpieces of farce and fantasy, stitched together with clichés and ad libs.
▪ II. rummage, v.|ˈrʌmɪdʒ|
Forms: 6 roomage, 7 roome(d)ge; 6–7 romege, 6–9 romage, 7 rommage, -idge; 6–7 rummidge, 7 -ige, rumidg(e, 7–8 rumage, 7– rummage.
[f. the n.]
I. trans.
†1. Naut.
a. To arrange, or rearrange (goods) in the hold of a ship. Also generally, to arrange, put in order. Obs.
1544Admiralty Court Libels No. 55, The romeger whiche they appoynted..to romege caske wares in the said shipp did romege at the same tyme the said annyse sed. 1598Hakluyt Voy. I. 300 To give the master..a good reward for his labour to see the goods well romaged. 1622Markham Decades Warre iii. vi. 103 Hee is continually to haue attending on him..Porters and luggage Carriers, to rummage and order things according to his directions. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 103 We careened our ships,..rummaged our gold, and repacked some of our provisions.
†b. To set in order, put straight (a ship, the hold) by rearranging the cargo. Obs.
1577Towrson in Hakluyt (1599) II. ii. 46 The 14 day we sent in our boats to take water, and romaged our shippes. 1622R. Hawkins Voy. S. Sea (1847) 86 The most of those which had health, occupied themselves in romeging our ship. 1625in J. S. Corbett Fighting Instr. (1905) 69 The hold in every ship should be rummaged and made predy, especially by the ship's sides.
2. Naut.
a. To search thoroughly, ransack (the hold of a vessel, etc.).
1628–9Digby Voy. Medit. (Camden) 4 An other English man of warre that had detained him all night and rummiged his hold and opened his letters. 1697W. Dampier Voy. (1699) 174 We rummaged our Prize, and found a few Boxes of Marmalade. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. 64 Tho' I thought I had rumag'd the Cabin so effectually, as that nothing more could be found, yet I discover'd a Locker with Drawers in it. 1739C. Labelye Piers Westm. Bridge 19 By means of these Booms we could inclose the..Boats and Vessels from being damaged or rumaged, either by Day or Night. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. x. II. 561 A set of pirates who, under pretence of searching for arms or delinquents, rummaged every boat that passed. 1876Smiles Sc. Natur. v. (ed. 4) 82 They are about to rummage the ship from stem to stern for runaways.
b. spec. of Customs officers in discharge of their duty.
1763Ann. Reg. 112 The powers of the officers of the customs to rummage ships with lights. 1812J. Smyth Pract. Customs 1 The Tide-surveyor is to rummage the Ship, in order to detect the concealment of any small packages of Goods, which are liable to Duty, or are prohibited to be imported. 1863A. Young Naut. Dict. (ed. 2) s.v., When rummaging a ship, they have a long steel spear to pierce any soft articles. 1876G. D. Ham Rev. & Mercantile Vade-M. 267 When the import cargo is discharged the Examining Officer finally rummages the vessel.
3. a. To make a search in or among; to overhaul in order to find something. Also in fig. context.
a1616Beaum. & Fl. Wit without M. ii. i, Why does she not go romage all the prisons? 1677R. Cary Palæol. Chron. ii. i. ix. 118 Ransacking and rummaging those obscure Cells and Vaults of Antiquity. 1758Goldsm. Mem. Protestant (1895) I. 110 Before we entered this Prison, the Gaoler rummaged us from Head to Foot. 1797–1805S. & Ht. Lee Canterb. T. II. 550 They saw that everything had been rummaged, and all the chests and lockers were wide open. 1833L. Ritchie Wand. by Loire 57 We rummaged our pockets in vain for the required passport. 1886G. R. Sims Ring o' Bells 136, I rummaged the house from top to bottom..; but in vain.
fig.1621Molle Camerarius' Liv. Libr. iii. v. 162 She roomedging her past evils. 1657W. Rumsey Organ. Sal. Ep. Ded. (1659) 16 Your Instrument serves to take away the grounds of these distempers, by rummaging and scouring the stomach.
b. With over, out, up.
1623G. Herbert Let., Rummage out your book-shelves. 1807Southey Lett. (1856) II. 38 Pray rummage up your memory for the new volumes. 1826Lamb The Months Misc. Wks. (1871) 395 Rummaging over the contents of an old stall. 1835Court Mag. VI. 112/2, I only grieve for the trouble I have taken in rummaging over my musty shelves. 1889J. K. Jerome Three Men in Boat iv. 57, I rummaged the things up into much the same state that they must have been before the world was created, and when chaos reigned.
4. a. To scrutinize, examine minutely, investigate.
1704Swift T. Tub ii. 68 Upon this, they fell again to romage the Will. 1728Morgan Algiers I. vi. 185, I yet never met with the least mention of any thing like it, in all the multitude of authors I have rummaged. 1845Encycl. Metrop. II. 755/1 They have rummaged the oldest monuments. 1864Burton Scot Abr. I. v. 305, I am inclined to concur in Pasquier's silence, having rummaged his ‘Recherches de la France’.
b. Const. over.
1725Watts Logic 304 To direct their disciples..to rummage over the definitions, divisions, and canons that belong to each topic. 1741tr. D'Argens' Chinese Lett. xxxviii. 287, I have rumaged over all the Authors of the Library of our Friends the Missionaries. 1825Jefferson Autobiog. Wks. 1859 I. 6 With the help..of Rushworth, whom we rummaged over for the revolutionary precedents.
5. a. To disarrange or disorder; to knock, stir, or drive about; to force or rout out by searching or making a stir. Somewhat rare.
1591Raleigh Last Fight Revenge 18 Our Ships being all pestered and romaging euerie thing out of order. 1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. iii. Furies 422 Even as the matter..Is rommidged with motions slowe or quick In feeble bodies of the Ague-sick. 1736N. Bailey Househ. Dict. 242 Add about two drams of crude alum..; rummage this well in it. 1840Mrs. Trollope Widow Married v, I shall find all the things rummaged about. 1878F. A. Kemble Rec. Girlhood I. ii. 49 The wild rabbits..hunted and rummaged from their burrows.
b. To bring out by searching; to fish out or up.
1715M. Davies Athen. Brit. I. Pref. 45 The Benedictin Monks..set themselves to rummage up old Manuscripts for Printing. 1786Cowper Let. to Lady Hesketh 12 June, She has also rummaged up a coop that will hold six chickens. 1803Lett. Miss Riversdale II. 303 In rummaging out the contents of a secrétaire,..[she] had discovered a private drawer. 1824Dibdin Libr. Comp. 755, I had the good fortune to rummage out another copy. 1830D'Israeli Chas. I, III. vi. 108 The writer..has rummaged out many state secrets, which he turns to his own purpose. 1847Alb. Smith Chr. Tadpole vii. (1879) 71 An ancient spangled jacket..was rummaged out of the property box.
c. To collect by searching.
1820Byron Morg. Mag. lxxxiv, Morgante rummaged piecemeal from the dust The whole.
6. To employ in searching or ransacking.
1825New Monthly Mag. XIV. 257 A man might rummage his hands among his pockets with comfort.
II. intr.
7. Naut. To make search († arrange or rearrange cargo, etc.) in a vessel.
c1595Capt. Wyatt R. Dudley's Voy. W. Ind. (Hakl. Soc.) 59 They weare not idle,..but still rummidginge, as it seemeth, provided well for theire defence. 1598Hakluyt Voy. I. 300 The master or Boatswaine, or him that will take vpon him to romage. 1607B. Barnes Divils Charter v. ii. K 4, Now Signor currigantino will I romage in the worme eaten keele of your rotten hulke. a1692H. Pollexfen Disc. Trade (1697) 117 They..have been actually on Board the said Ship, and have begun to rummage there, pretending to remove the Goods in order to their Inspection and Appraisment. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Quartermaster, Their Business is to rummage in the Hold on all Occasions.
8. a. To engage in a search, make an investigation, of any kind.
1666Boyle Orig. of Formes & Qual. To Rdr. A 7 b, I rumag'd among my Loose papers. 1692R. L'Estrange Fables i. xxxii, As a Fox was Rumidging among a great many Carv'd Figures. 1726G. Shelvocke Voy. round World 89 They have been ashore at some Indian houses, and have rummaged and taken several things of small value. 1789F. Burney Diary 2 Feb., He pulled out a pocket-book, and rummaged some time, but to no purpose. 1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) IV. 365 note, I should rummage to see whether a case could be found in which [etc.]. 1852Dickens Bleak Ho. lix, This gentleman, when he comes into the property, naturally begins to rummage. 1875Mrs. Trollope A Charming Fellow III. xvii. 220 She..began to rummage among its contents.
b. Const. about, around.
1867Trollope Chron. Barset I. xlii. 367 In preparing a defence we have to rummage about and get up what we can. 1883‘Mark Twain’ Life on Mississippi iii. 36 He come rummaging around in the dark amongst the shingle bundles. 1885Manch. Exam. 29 June 5/2 He took the keys and began to rummage about for spoil.
c. Said of mice or rats.
1842Tennyson Walking to Mail 30 A jolly ghost, that..tapt at doors, And rummaged like a rat. 1863Longfellow Wayside Inn, Student's Sec. T., So silent you can hear the mouse Run and rummage along the beams.
9. To turn or move restlessly. rare—1.
1755Croker tr. Orl. Fur. xxiii. cxxii, He..wheels round to and fro, This side and that, rummaging o'er his bed.
Hence ˈrummaging ppl. a.
1847C. Brontë J. Eyre vii, They..had been conducting a rummaging scrutiny of the rooms upstairs. 1887J. Ashby-Sterry Lazy Minstrel (1892) 161 What display, both of quantity and quality, These rummaging douaniers oft bring to light. |