English-Thai Dictionary

rummage

N การ ค้น กระจุย กระจาย  การรื้อ ค้น  การ ค้น ทั่ว  การ ค้น ทุกซอกทุกมุม  thorough search kan-kon-kra-jui-kra-jai

 

rummage

N สิ่งของ สัพเพเหระ ที่ ใช้แล้ว  siang-kong-sab-pea-hea-ra-ti-chai-leo

 

rummage

VI ค้น กระจุย กระจาย  รื้อ ค้น  ค้น ทั่ว  ransack rearch kon-kra-jui-kra-jai

 

rummage

VT ค้น กระจุย กระจาย  รื้อ ค้น  ค้น ทั่ว  ค้น ทุกซอกทุกมุม  ransack search kon-kra-jui-kra-jai

 

rummage about / around

PHRV ค้น จน กระจุก กระจาย  ค้นหา ทุก ซอก มุม  kon-jon-kra-juk-kra-jai

 

rummage out / up

PHRV ค้นหา จน ทั่ว  ค้น กระจุย  kon-ha-jon-tua

 

rummage sale

N การ ขายของ หลากหลาย ทั้ง ใช้แล้ว และ ของ ใหม่ เพื่อ การกุศล  kan-kai-kong-lak-lai-tang-chai-leo-lea-mai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

RUMMAGE

n.A searching carefully by looking into every corner and by tumbling over things.

 

RUMMAGE

v.t.[L. rimor.] To search narrowly by looking into every corner and turning over or removing goods or other things.
Our greedy seamen rummage every hold.

 

RUMMAGE

v.i.To search a place narrowly by looking among things. I have often rummaged for old books in Little-Britain and Duck-Lane.

 

RUMMAGED

pp. Searched in every corner.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

RUMMAGE

Rum "mage (; 48 ), n. Etym: [For roomage, fr. room; hence originally, a making room, a packing away closely. See Room. ]

 

1. (Naut. )

 

Defn: 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. [Obs. ]

 

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.

 

RUMMAGE

Rum "mage, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rummaged; p. pr. & vb. n. Rummaging. ]

 

1. (Naut. )

 

Defn: 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. [Obs. ] They night bring away a great deal more than they do, if they would take pain in the romaging. Hakluyt.

 

2. 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. He. .. searcheth his pockets, and taketh his keys, and so rummageth all his closets and trunks. Howell. What schoolboy of us has not rummaged his Greek dictionary in vain for a satisfactory account! M. Arnold.

 

RUMMAGE

RUMMAGE Rum "mage, v. i.

 

Defn: To search a place narrowly. I have often rummaged for old books in Little Britain and Duck Lane. Swift. [His house ] was haunted with a jolly ghost, that. ..... rummaged like a rat. Tennyson.

 

RUMMAGER

RUMMAGER Rum "ma *ger, n.

 

1. One who rummages.

 

2. (Naut. )

 

Defn: A person on shipboard whose business was to take charge of stowing the cargo; -- formerly written roomager, and romager. [Obs. ] The master must provide a perfect mariner, called a romager, to range and bestow all merchandise. Hakluyt .

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

rummage

rum mage |ˈrəmij ˈrəmɪʤ | ▶verb [ no obj. ] search unsystematically and untidily through a mass or receptacle: he rummaged in his pocket for a handkerchief | [ with obj. ] : he rummaged the drawer for his false teeth. • [ with obj. ] find (something ) by searching in this way: Mick rummaged up his skateboard. • [ with obj. ] (of a customs officer ) make a thorough search of (a vessel ): our brief was to rummage as many of the vessels as possible. ▶noun an unsystematic and untidy search through a mass or receptacle. • a thorough search of a vessel by a customs officer. DERIVATIVES rum mag er noun ORIGIN late 15th cent.: from Old French arrumage, from arrumer ‘stow (in a hold ),’ from Middle Dutch ruim ‘room. ’ In early use the word referred to the arranging of items such as casks in the hold of a ship, giving rise (early 17th cent. ) to the verb sense ‘make a search of (a vessel ).’

 

rummage sale

rum mage sale |ˈrəmɪʤ seɪl | ▶noun a sale of miscellaneous secondhand articles, typically held in order to raise money for a charity or a special event.

 

Oxford Dictionary

rummage

rum |mage |ˈrʌmɪdʒ | ▶verb [ no obj. ] search unsystematically and untidily through something: he rummaged in his pocket for a handkerchief | [ with obj. ] : he rummaged the drawer for his false teeth. • [ with obj. ] find (something ) by rummaging: Mick rummaged up his skateboard. • [ with obj. ] (of a customs officer ) make a thorough search of (a vessel ): our brief was to rummage as many of the vessels as possible. ▶noun an unsystematic and untidy search. • a thorough search of a vessel by a customs officer. DERIVATIVES rummager noun ORIGIN late 15th cent.: from Old French arrumage, from arrumer ‘stow (in a hold )’, from Middle Dutch ruim ‘room ’. In early use the word referred to the arranging of items such as casks in the hold of a ship, giving rise (early 17th cent. ) to the verb sense ‘make a search of (a vessel ’).

 

rummage sale

rum |mage sale ▶noun chiefly N. Amer. a jumble sale.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

rummage

rummage verb he rummaged through Stacey's bureau drawers: search (through ), hunt through, root about /around (in ), ferret about /around (in ), fish about /around (in ), poke around (in ), dig through, delve through, go through, explore, sift through, rifle (through ).

 

Oxford Thesaurus

rummage

rummage verb Nancy rummaged in her bag for her cigarettes: search (through ), hunt through, scrabble about /around in, root about /around in, ferret (about /around ) in, fish about /around in, poke around in, dig in, grub about in, delve in, go through, explore, sift through, rifle through, scour, ransack, turn over; Brit. informal rootle around in; Austral. /NZ informal fossick through; rare roust around in.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

rummage

rum mage /rʌ́mɪdʒ /動詞 自動詞 «…を求めて /場所を » ひっかき回して捜す (about ) «for /among , in , through » ▸ rummage in a drawer for the key 引き出しをひっかき回してかぎを捜す .名詞 U 1 〖時にa ～〗(ひっかき回して )くまなく捜すこと ; 探索 .2 ｟米 ｠がらくた, くず .～́ s à le ｟米 ｠がらくた市, 慈善バザー (｟英 ｠jumble sale ).