Dictionary
Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
tumbling en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Meanings
-
The act of something that tumbles.
These so many conquests must needs bring with them many tumblings and tossings, many disturbances and changes in government[…]
1677, James Howell, The Pre-eminence and Pedigree of Parlement:And you have left off tumbling when you waltz now?
1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 46, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:Having feasted our souls with this sublime spectacle, we ministered to the wants of the body by a plentiful breakfast, and about noon we commenced the descent, rendered ludicrous enough by various tumblings and sprawlings on the part of the more inexpert mountaineers.
1838, Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, page 176:
Forms
Deriveds
rebound tumbling · tumbling flower beetle
tumbling en · VERB
Pronunciation
Meanings
-
(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of tumble