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    [Verb]  | "rum*mage" | \ ˈrə-mij \


    1: to make a thorough search or investigation

    2: to engage in an undirected or haphazard search

    3: to make a thorough search through : ransack


    Origin: 1582 ;

     {see: |rummage:2|rummage:2};

    [Noun]  | "rummage" 


    1: a confused miscellaneous collection

    2: items for sale at a rummage sale

    3: a thorough search especially among a confusion of objects


    Origin: 1598 ;

     Obsolete English romage act of stowing cargo, modification of Middle French arrimage, from arrimer to stow, from a- (from Latin ad-) + -rimer, from Middle English rimen to open up, make room for, from Old English rȳman{mat|ream|};

    [Noun]  | "rummage sale" 


    1: a usually informal sale of miscellaneous goods; especially : a sale of donated articles conducted by a nonprofit organization (such as a church or charity) to help support its programs


    Origin: circa 1858 ;

    [Idiom]  | "have a rummage" 


    1: to look in order to try to find something : to search

    [Noun]  | "rummage" 


    1: an unorganized collection or mixture of various things;


      * e.g., " ... a rummage of textbooks, notebooks, and old school papers all over the desk "



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    [Noun]  | "rummage sale" 


    1: as in jumble sale;


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    [Noun]  | "rummage sales" 


    1: as in jumble sales;


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    [Verb]  | "rummage" 


    1: to come upon after searching, study, or effort;


      * e.g., " ... at the last minute she rummaged a costume from the attic "





    2: to look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something;


      * e.g., " ... he rummaged the desk drawer trying to find the spare keys "



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