Word Meanings - RUMMAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. 2. A searching carefully by looking into every corner, and by turning

Additional info about word: RUMMAGE

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. 2. A searching carefully by looking into every corner, and by turning things over. He has such a general rummage and reform in the office of matrimony. Walpole. Rummage sale, a clearance sale of unclaimed goods in a public store, or of odds and ends which have accumulated in a shop. Simmonds.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RUMMAGE)

• Ransack
• Rummage
• rifle
• explore
• pillage
• ravage
• overhaul

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RUMMAGE)

• Spare
• conserve
• preserve
• indemnify

Related words: (words related to RUMMAGE)

• RUMMAGER
  A person on shipboard whose business was to take charge of stowing the cargo; -- formerly written roomager, and romager. The master must provide a perfect mariner, called a romager, to range and bestow all merchandise. Hakluyt (more info) 1. One
• RAVAGER
  One who, or that which, ravages or lays waste; spoiler.
• RAVAGE
  Desolation by violence; violent ruin or destruction; devastation; havoc; waste; as, the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time. Would one think 't were possible for love To make such ravage in a noble
• SPARE
  1. To use frugally or stintingly, as that which is scarce or valuable; to retain or keep unused; to save. "No cost would he spare." Chaucer. thy Father's dreadful thunder didst not spare. Milton. He that hath knowledge, spareth his words. Prov.
• OVERHAUL; OVERHAULING
  A strict examination with a view to correction or repairs.
• INDEMNIFY
  1. To save harmless; to secure against loss or damage; to insure. The states must at last engage to the merchants here that they will indemnify them from all that shall fall out. Sir W. Temple. 2. To make restitution or compensation for, as for
• EXPLORER
  One who explores; also, an apparatus with which one explores, as a diving bell.
• EXPLOREMENT
  The act of exploring; exploration. Sir T. Browne.
• PRESERVER
  1. One who, or that which, preserves, saves, or defends, from destruction, injury, or decay; esp., one who saves the life or character of another. Shak. 2. One who makes preserves of fruit. Game preserver. See under Game.
• SPARERIB
  A piece of pork, consisting or ribs with little flesh on them.
• RUMMAGE
  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. 2. A searching carefully by looking into every corner, and by turning
• RANSACK
  + the root of sækja 1. To search thoroughly; to search every place or part of; as, to ransack a house. To ransack every corner of their . . . hearts. South. 2. To plunder; to pillage completely. Their vow is made To ransack Troy. Shak.
• SPARELY
  In a spare manner; sparingly.
• RIFLEBIRD
  Any one of several species of beautiful birds of Australia and New Guinea, of the genera Ptiloris and Craspidophora, allied to the paradise birds. Note: The largest and best known species is Ptiloris paradisea of Australia. Its general color is
• OVERHAUL
  To gain upon in a chase; to overtake. To overhaul a tackle, to pull on the leading parts so as to separate the blocks. -- To overhaul running rigging, to keep it clear, and see that no hitch occurs. (more info) 1. To haul or drag over; hence, to
• SPARELESS
  Unsparing. Sylvester.
• SPAREFUL
  Sparing; chary. Fairfax. -- Spare"ful*ness, n. Sir P. Sidney.
• EXPLORE
  1. To seek for or after; to strive to attain by search; to look wisely and carefully for. Explores the lost, the wandering sheep directs. Pope. 2. To search through or into; to penetrate or range over for discovery; to examine thoroughly; as, to
• RIFLEMAN
  A soldier armed with a rifle.
• RIFLER
  One who rifles; a robber.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
• TRANSPARENCE
  The quality or state of being transparent; transparency.
• TRANSPARENCY
  1. The quality or condition of being transparent; transparence. 2. That which is transparent; especially, a picture painted on thin cloth or glass, or impressed on porcelain, or the like, to be viewed by natural or artificial light, which shines
• TRIFLER
  One who trifles. Waterland.
• SUBTRANSPARENT
  Not perfectly transparent.
• MINIE RIFLE
  A rifle adapted to minie balls.