Rummage

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vi To search a place narrowly.

II. Rummage ·noun A searching carefully by looking into every corner, and by turning things over.

III. Rummage ·noun A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship; also, the act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage;

— formerly written romage.

IV. Rummage ·vt To search or examine thoroughly by looking into every corner, and turning over or removing goods or other things; to examine, as a book, carefully, turning over leaf after leaf.

V. Rummage ·vt To make room in, as a ship, for the cargo; to move about, as packages, ballast, so as to permit close stowage; to stow closely; to Pack;

— formerly written roomage, and romage.

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