tumbling
Verb
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Verb
- present participle of tumble#English|tumble
tumbling (plural tumblings)
- 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 […]
- 1838, Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist (page 176)
- 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.
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