tumble : Idioms & Phrases

• noun disorderly fighting
  tussle; dogfight; hassle; scuffle.
  
• adjective satellite characterized by disorderly action and disregard for rules
  bare-knuckle; bare-knuckled.
  
  • a rough-and-tumble fight
  • rough-and-tumble politics
  • undisguised bare-knuckle capitalism

WordNet

• (Naut.), to incline inward, as the sides of a vessel, above the bends or extreme breadth; used esp. in the phrase tumbling home. Cf. Wall-sided.

Webster 1913

• noun a clothes dryer that spins wet clothes inside a cylinder with heated air
  tumble drier.
  

WordNet

• verb dry by spinning with hot air inside a cylinder
  
  • These fabrics are delicate and cannot be tumbled dry

WordNet

• noun North American grass with slender brushy panicles; often a weed on cultivated land
  old witchgrass; witchgrass; witch grass; Panicum capillare; old witch grass.
  

WordNet

• adjective satellite in deplorable condition
  dilapidated; broken-down; tatterdemalion; ramshackle; derelict; bedraggled.
  
  • a street of bedraggled tenements
  • a broken-down fence
  • a ramshackle old pier
  • a tumble-down shack

WordNet

Tum"ble-down` adjective

Definitions

1. Ready to fall; dilapidated; ruinous; as, a tumble-down house. Colloq.

Webster 1913

• noun a clothes dryer that spins wet clothes inside a cylinder with heated air
  tumble drier.
  

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