tumble-comb. form

Stress is usually attracted to this combining form.

The verb-stem in combination:

1. with substantives:

tumble-action n.

Brit.

/ˈtʌmbl̩akʃn/

U.S.

/ˈtəmb(ə)lˌækʃ(ə)n/

the tumbling action of a tumble-drier.

ΘΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > drying clothes by spinning in machine > machine for > action of machine

tumble-action1958

1958 Sunday Times 9 Mar. 22/6 Here [in an electric washing machine] tumble-action replaces a wringer.

1976 National Observer (U.S.) 11 Dec. 9/1 Do not use tumble-action dryer.

tumble-bug n.

Brit.

/ˈtʌmbl̩bʌɡ/

U.S.

/ˈtəmb(ə)lˌbəɡ/

= tumble-dung n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Lamellicornia Scarabaeoidea > family Scarabaeidae > member of (dung-beetle)

sharnbudc1000

dora1450

clock1568

sharn-bug1608

dung beetle1634

grey fly1638

dunghill beetle1658

comb-chafer1712

tumble-turd1754

tumble-dung1775

dung-chafer1805

tumble-bug1805

tumbler1807

bull-comber1813

straddle-bug1839

lamellicorn1842

scarabaeidan1842

shard-beetle1854

watchman1864

scarabaeoid1887

scarabaeid1891

minotaur1918

1805 R. Parkinson Tour Amer. 362 A kind of beetle, called a tumble-bug,..in the summer forms a cave in the earth.

1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. ii. 22 (note) Tumblebug.

1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 86 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV The best known and most common beetle of this family in this country is the Canton lævis, usually termed the tumble-bug.

tumble-car n.

Brit.

/ˈtʌmbl̩kɑː/

U.S.

/ˈtəmb(ə)lˌkɑr/

see quot.

ΘΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [noun] > with wheels and axles turning together

tumble-car1794

tumble-cart1887

1794 J. Bailey & G. Culley Gen. View Agric. Cumberland 31 We suppose they had the name of tumble carrs, from the axle being made fast in the wheels, and the whole turning or tumbling round together.

tumble-cart n.

Brit.

/ˈtʌmbl̩kɑːt/

U.S.

/ˈtəmb(ə)lˌkɑrt/

= tumble-car n.

ΘΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [noun] > with wheels and axles turning together

tumble-car1794

tumble-cart1887

1887 D. Donaldson Jamieson's Sc. Dict. Suppl. The tumble-cart, tumbler, or car, continued in use in the upland districts till the beginning of the present century.

tumble-dung n.

Brit.

/ˈtʌmbl̩dʌŋ/

U.S.

/ˈtəmb(ə)lˌdəŋ/

name in U.S. for a scarabæid beetle which rolls up balls of dung, in which it deposits its eggs and in which the larvæ go through their transformations; a dung beetle; also attributive.

ΘΚΠ

sharnbudc1000

dora1450

clock1568

sharn-bug1608

dung beetle1634

grey fly1638

dunghill beetle1658

comb-chafer1712

tumble-turd1754

tumble-dung1775

dung-chafer1805

tumble-bug1805

tumbler1807

bull-comber1813

straddle-bug1839

lamellicorn1842

scarabaeidan1842

shard-beetle1854

watchman1864

scarabaeoid1887

scarabaeid1891

minotaur1918

1775 R. Twiss Trav. Portugal & Spain 247 The beetle, known by the name of tumble-dung.

1798 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1799) 2 355 The scarabæus carnifex, or tumble-dung-beetle.

1880 New Virginians I. 103 The humble rusty-black ‘tumbledung’.

tumble fruit n.

Brit.

/ˈtʌmbl fruːt/

U.S.

/ˈtəmb(ə)l ˌfrut/

fallen fruit, windfalls.

ΘΠ

the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > [noun] > fallen fruit

windfalla1592

nightfall1611

night-falling1632

tumble fruit1891

1891 B'ham Weekly Post 8 Aug. 4/7 Babies, like tumble fruit, everywhere.

tumble-rose n.

Brit.

/ˈtʌmbl̩rəʊz/

U.S.

/ˈtəmb(ə)lˌroʊz/

a species of the parrot-fish, Scarus cæruleus, found on the Atlantic coast from southern U.S. to Brazil ( Cent. Dict. Suppl. 1909).

† tumble-turd n. Obsolete = tumble-dung n.

ΘΚΠ

sharnbudc1000

dora1450

clock1568

sharn-bug1608

dung beetle1634

grey fly1638

dunghill beetle1658

comb-chafer1712

tumble-turd1754

tumble-dung1775

dung-chafer1805

tumble-bug1805

tumbler1807

bull-comber1813

straddle-bug1839

lamellicorn1842

scarabaeidan1842

shard-beetle1854

watchman1864

scarabaeoid1887

scarabaeid1891

minotaur1918

1754 M. Catesby & G. Edwards Nat. Hist. Carolina (rev. ed.) II. App. The Tumble Turds. Scarabæus pillularis Americanus. Scarabæus carnifex, L.

tumble-weed n.

Brit.

/ˈtʌmbl̩wiːd/

U.S.

/ˈtəmb(ə)lˌwid/

name in U.S. for various plants which form a globular bush which in late summer is broken off and rolled about by the wind; a rolling weed (rolling weed n. at rolling adj. and adv. Compounds 1).

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > valued plants and weeds > [noun] > weed > type of weed

runchicka1585

crap1673

stroil1758

tumble-weed1887

the world > plants > valued plants and weeds > [noun] > weed > rolling mass of weeds or tumble-weed

witch ball1856

tumble-weed1887

the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > tumble-weed

ghost plant1886

tumble-weed1887

weed1899

1887 Amer. Naturalist 21 930 Amarantus albus, the common tumble-weed.

2. with adverbs: See also tumble-down adj.

tumble home n.

Brit.

/ˈtʌmbl həʊm/

U.S.

/ˈtəmb(ə)l ˌhoʊm/

in a ship, = tumbling home at tumbling n. 2; also transferred of a motor vehicle.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > body or bodywork > specific shape

tumble home1833

torpedo1909

torpedo-body1924

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > side(s) of vessel > [noun] > part above waterline > inward inclination of

homing1622

tumbling home1664

tumbling-in1832

tumble home1833

1833 T. Richardson Mercantile Marine Archit. 13 Giving only six inches tumble home of the topside.

1874 S. J. P. Thearle Naval Archit. (new ed.) I. 60 When the ship has considerable beam, the breadth of the channel is kept within reasonable limits by giving a ‘tumble home’ to the top-sides.

1924 Motor 7 Oct. 450/2 The body is of particularly pleasing lines, with a V windscreen and tumble-home stern.

1968 Motor Industry Res. Rep. ix. 25/1 Decreases due to increasing the canopy tumble-home.

tumble-over n.

Brit.

/ˈtʌmbl̩əʊvə/

U.S.

/ˈtəmb(ə)lˌoʊvər/

an act of falling over; concrete a toy so weighted that it always takes a position of equilibrium; also attributive inclined to fall down, rickety, tottering.

ΘΠ

the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > dilapidated or ruinous > rickety

seely1562

crazy1583

ramshackled1675

creachy1715

rickly1715

rickety1741

palsified1775

shackling1790

ramshackling1815

paralytic1824

rackety1824

rattletrap1824

cocklety1828

ramshackle1830

shickery?1833

shackly1843

shattery1844

shaky1850

ramshackly1857

cockly1859

rachitic1864

ruckly1866

tumble-over1883

palsied1889

rattle-bag1896

shauchly1896

bockety1902

ruggy1929

rickety-rackety1931

ropy1942

society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > other toys > [noun] > others

spurc1450

cock1608

turnel1621

corala1625

house of cardsa1625

Jack-in-the-box1659

(Prince) Rupert's Drops1662

sucker1681

whirligig1686

playbook1694

card house1733

snapper1788

card castle1792

Aaron's bells?1795

Noah's Ark1807

Jacob's ladder1820

cat-stairs1825

daisy chain1841

beanbag1861

playboat1865

piñata1868

teething ring1872

weet-weet1878

tumble-over1883

water cracker1887

jumping-bean1889

play money1894

serpentin1894

comforter1898

pacifier1901

dummy1903

bubble water1904

yo-yo1915

paper airplane1921

snowstorm1926

titty1927

teaser1935

Slinky1948

teether1949

Mr Potato Head1952

squeeze toy1954

Frisbee1957

mobile1957

chew toy1959

water-rocket1961

Crazy Foam1965

playshop1967

war toy1973

waterball1974

pull-along1976

transformer1984

Aerobie1985

1883 W. Black Shandon Bells xxx But the gable of the house is a leetle tumble-over, isn't it?

1895 Outing 26 380/1 Those lead-weighted, pith ‘tumble-overs’, with which we played when children.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 51 He was suddenly seized with intense darting pain in the region of the heart..accompanied by a sensation of ‘tumble over’ of the organ.

tumble-up n.

Brit.

/ˈtʌmbl̩ʌp/

U.S.

/ˈtəmb(ə)lˌəp/

a tumbler designed to be placed upside down on the neck of a carafe.

ΘΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > glass > for placing upside down on carafe

tumble-up1891

1891 Sale Catal. Glass Wks. Stourbridge Seventy-one tumble-ups.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

单词	tumble-
释义	tumble-comb. form Stress is usually attracted to this combining form. The verb-stem in combination: 1. with substantives: tumble-action n. Brit. /ˈtʌmbl̩akʃn/ , U.S. /ˈtəmb(ə)lˌækʃ(ə)n/ the tumbling action of a tumble-drier. ΘΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > drying clothes by spinning in machine > machine for > action of machine tumble-action1958 1958 Sunday Times 9 Mar. 22/6 Here [in an electric washing machine] tumble-action replaces a wringer. 1976 National Observer (U.S.) 11 Dec. 9/1 Do not use tumble-action dryer. tumble-bug n. Brit. /ˈtʌmbl̩bʌɡ/ , U.S. /ˈtəmb(ə)lˌbəɡ/ = tumble-dung n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Lamellicornia Scarabaeoidea > family Scarabaeidae > member of (dung-beetle) sharnbudc1000 dora1450 clock1568 sharn-bug1608 dung beetle1634 grey fly1638 dunghill beetle1658 comb-chafer1712 tumble-turd1754 tumble-dung1775 dung-chafer1805 tumble-bug1805 tumbler1807 bull-comber1813 straddle-bug1839 lamellicorn1842 scarabaeidan1842 shard-beetle1854 watchman1864 scarabaeoid1887 scarabaeid1891 minotaur1918 1805 R. Parkinson Tour Amer. 362 A kind of beetle, called a tumble-bug,..in the summer forms a cave in the earth. 1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. ii. 22 (note) Tumblebug. 1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 86 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV The best known and most common beetle of this family in this country is the Canton lævis, usually termed the tumble-bug. tumble-car n. Brit. /ˈtʌmbl̩kɑː/ , U.S. /ˈtəmb(ə)lˌkɑr/ see quot. ΘΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [noun] > with wheels and axles turning together tumble-car1794 tumble-cart1887 1794 J. Bailey & G. Culley Gen. View Agric. Cumberland 31 We suppose they had the name of tumble carrs, from the axle being made fast in the wheels, and the whole turning or tumbling round together. tumble-cart n. Brit. /ˈtʌmbl̩kɑːt/ , U.S. /ˈtəmb(ə)lˌkɑrt/ = tumble-car n. ΘΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [noun] > with wheels and axles turning together tumble-car1794 tumble-cart1887 1887 D. Donaldson Jamieson's Sc. Dict. Suppl. The tumble-cart, tumbler, or car, continued in use in the upland districts till the beginning of the present century. tumble-dung n. Brit. /ˈtʌmbl̩dʌŋ/ , U.S. /ˈtəmb(ə)lˌdəŋ/ name in U.S. for a scarabæid beetle which rolls up balls of dung, in which it deposits its eggs and in which the larvæ go through their transformations; a dung beetle; also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Lamellicornia Scarabaeoidea > family Scarabaeidae > member of (dung-beetle) sharnbudc1000 dora1450 clock1568 sharn-bug1608 dung beetle1634 grey fly1638 dunghill beetle1658 comb-chafer1712 tumble-turd1754 tumble-dung1775 dung-chafer1805 tumble-bug1805 tumbler1807 bull-comber1813 straddle-bug1839 lamellicorn1842 scarabaeidan1842 shard-beetle1854 watchman1864 scarabaeoid1887 scarabaeid1891 minotaur1918 1775 R. Twiss Trav. Portugal & Spain 247 The beetle, known by the name of tumble-dung. 1798 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1799) 2 355 The scarabæus carnifex, or tumble-dung-beetle. 1880 New Virginians I. 103 The humble rusty-black ‘tumbledung’. tumble fruit n. Brit. /ˈtʌmbl fruːt/ , U.S. /ˈtəmb(ə)l ˌfrut/ fallen fruit, windfalls. ΘΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > [noun] > fallen fruit windfalla1592 nightfall1611 night-falling1632 tumble fruit1891 1891 B'ham Weekly Post 8 Aug. 4/7 Babies, like tumble fruit, everywhere. tumble-rose n. Brit. /ˈtʌmbl̩rəʊz/ , U.S. /ˈtəmb(ə)lˌroʊz/ a species of the parrot-fish, Scarus cæruleus, found on the Atlantic coast from southern U.S. to Brazil ( Cent. Dict. Suppl. 1909). † tumble-turd n. Obsolete = tumble-dung n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Lamellicornia Scarabaeoidea > family Scarabaeidae > member of (dung-beetle) sharnbudc1000 dora1450 clock1568 sharn-bug1608 dung beetle1634 grey fly1638 dunghill beetle1658 comb-chafer1712 tumble-turd1754 tumble-dung1775 dung-chafer1805 tumble-bug1805 tumbler1807 bull-comber1813 straddle-bug1839 lamellicorn1842 scarabaeidan1842 shard-beetle1854 watchman1864 scarabaeoid1887 scarabaeid1891 minotaur1918 1754 M. Catesby & G. Edwards Nat. Hist. Carolina (rev. ed.) II. App. The Tumble Turds. Scarabæus pillularis Americanus. Scarabæus carnifex, L. tumble-weed n. Brit. /ˈtʌmbl̩wiːd/ , U.S. /ˈtəmb(ə)lˌwid/ name in U.S. for various plants which form a globular bush which in late summer is broken off and rolled about by the wind; a rolling weed (rolling weed n. at rolling adj. and adv. Compounds 1). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > valued plants and weeds > [noun] > weed > type of weed runchicka1585 crap1673 stroil1758 tumble-weed1887 the world > plants > valued plants and weeds > [noun] > weed > rolling mass of weeds or tumble-weed witch ball1856 tumble-weed1887 the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > tumble-weed ghost plant1886 tumble-weed1887 weed1899 1887 Amer. Naturalist 21 930 Amarantus albus, the common tumble-weed. 2. with adverbs: See also tumble-down adj. tumble home n. Brit. /ˈtʌmbl həʊm/ , U.S. /ˈtəmb(ə)l ˌhoʊm/ in a ship, = tumbling home at tumbling n. 2; also transferred of a motor vehicle. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > body or bodywork > specific shape tumble home1833 torpedo1909 torpedo-body1924 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > side(s) of vessel > [noun] > part above waterline > inward inclination of homing1622 tumbling home1664 tumbling-in1832 tumble home1833 1833 T. Richardson Mercantile Marine Archit. 13 Giving only six inches tumble home of the topside. 1874 S. J. P. Thearle Naval Archit. (new ed.) I. 60 When the ship has considerable beam, the breadth of the channel is kept within reasonable limits by giving a ‘tumble home’ to the top-sides. 1924 Motor 7 Oct. 450/2 The body is of particularly pleasing lines, with a V windscreen and tumble-home stern. 1968 Motor Industry Res. Rep. ix. 25/1 Decreases due to increasing the canopy tumble-home. tumble-over n. Brit. /ˈtʌmbl̩əʊvə/ , U.S. /ˈtəmb(ə)lˌoʊvər/ an act of falling over; concrete a toy so weighted that it always takes a position of equilibrium; also attributive inclined to fall down, rickety, tottering. ΘΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > dilapidated or ruinous > rickety seely1562 crazy1583 ramshackled1675 creachy1715 rickly1715 rickety1741 palsified1775 shackling1790 ramshackling1815 paralytic1824 rackety1824 rattletrap1824 cocklety1828 ramshackle1830 shickery?1833 shackly1843 shattery1844 shaky1850 ramshackly1857 cockly1859 rachitic1864 ruckly1866 tumble-over1883 palsied1889 rattle-bag1896 shauchly1896 bockety1902 ruggy1929 rickety-rackety1931 ropy1942 society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > other toys > [noun] > others spurc1450 cock1608 turnel1621 corala1625 house of cardsa1625 Jack-in-the-box1659 (Prince) Rupert's Drops1662 sucker1681 whirligig1686 playbook1694 card house1733 snapper1788 card castle1792 Aaron's bells?1795 Noah's Ark1807 Jacob's ladder1820 cat-stairs1825 daisy chain1841 beanbag1861 playboat1865 piñata1868 teething ring1872 weet-weet1878 tumble-over1883 water cracker1887 jumping-bean1889 play money1894 serpentin1894 comforter1898 pacifier1901 dummy1903 bubble water1904 yo-yo1915 paper airplane1921 snowstorm1926 titty1927 teaser1935 Slinky1948 teether1949 Mr Potato Head1952 squeeze toy1954 Frisbee1957 mobile1957 chew toy1959 water-rocket1961 Crazy Foam1965 playshop1967 war toy1973 waterball1974 pull-along1976 transformer1984 Aerobie1985 1883 W. Black Shandon Bells xxx But the gable of the house is a leetle tumble-over, isn't it? 1895 Outing 26 380/1 Those lead-weighted, pith ‘tumble-overs’, with which we played when children. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 51 He was suddenly seized with intense darting pain in the region of the heart..accompanied by a sensation of ‘tumble over’ of the organ. tumble-up n. Brit. /ˈtʌmbl̩ʌp/ , U.S. /ˈtəmb(ə)lˌəp/ a tumbler designed to be placed upside down on the neck of a carafe. ΘΠ the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > glass > for placing upside down on carafe tumble-up1891 1891 Sale Catal. Glass Wks. Stourbridge Seventy-one tumble-ups. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < comb. form1754
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