Толковый словарь английского языка - rummage
Rummage
rummage
I. verb (~d; rummaging) Etymology: 2~ Date: 1582 intransitive verb to make a thorough search or investigation, to engage in an undirected or haphazard search, transitive verb to make a thorough search through ; ransack , to examine minutely and completely, to discover by searching, ~r noun II. noun see: ream Date: 1598 1. a confused miscellaneous collection, items for sale at a ~ sale, a thorough search especially among a confusion of objects
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v. & n. --v. 1 tr. & (foll. by in, through, among) intr. search, esp. untidily and unsystematically. 2 tr. (foll. by out, up) find among other things. 3 tr. (foll. by about) disarrange; make untidy in searching. --n. 1 an instance of rummaging. 2 things found by rummaging; a miscellaneous accumulation. Phrases and idioms rummage sale esp. US a jumble sale. Derivatives rummager n. Etymology: earlier as noun in obs. sense 'arranging of casks etc. in a hold': OF arrumage f. arrumer stow (as AD-, run ship's hold f. MDu. ruim ROOM) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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