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What (who) is rummage - definition
SALE TO RAISE FUNDS FOR A GOOD CAUSE
Rummage sale; Jumble sales; Church sale; Rummage sales; Bring and Buy sale; Tabletop sale; Church bazaar; Nearly-new sale
Rummage
·vi To search a place narrowly.
II. Rummage ·noun A searching carefully by looking into every corner, and by turning things over.
III. Rummage ·noun 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.
IV. Rummage ·vt 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.
V. Rummage ·vt 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.
rummage
¦ verb search unsystematically and untidily for something.
?make a thorough search of (a vessel).
¦ noun an act of rummaging.
Derivatives
rummager noun
Word History
Rummage came into English in the late 15th century, from the Old French word arrumage, which was based on arrumer 'stow in a hold'. In early use it meant 'arrange items in the hold of a ship', which gave rise to the sense 'make a search of a vessel' (which is still used in the context of customs officers going about their duties) and then to the main modern meaning. Rummage is connected to room, through the shared Middle Dutch root ruim 'room'.
rummage
v. (D; intr.) to rummage through (to rummage through old clothes)
Wikipedia
Jumble sale
A jumble sale (UK), bring and buy sale (Australia) or rummage sale (U.S and Canada) is an event at which second hand goods are sold, usually by an institution such as a local Boys' Brigade Company, Scout group, Girlguiding group or church, as a fundraising or charitable effort. A rummage sale by a church is called a church sale or white elephant sale, frequently as part of a church bazaar.
Garage sales usually differ from rummage sales in that they are not event-related and are often organised individually (rather than collectively).
Examples of use of rummage
1. "We get jackals, dogs and cats that rummage through the bags and scatter garbage," Gedalyahu says.
2. Bush sees no reason to rummage through all these past decisions.
3. Invisible industry Mounir‘s wife Layla empties bags on the floor for her four daughters to rummage through.
4. Other items appeared to have come from a rummage sale, or perhaps from the pile on Aunt Estelle‘s bed.
5. Stingrays are usually shy, unobtrusive fish that rummage along the sea bottom for food or burrow into the sand.