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rum⋅mage

  [ruhm-ij] verb, -maged, -mag⋅ing, noun
Use rummage out in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to search thoroughly or actively through (a place, receptacle, etc.), esp. by moving around, turning over, or looking through contents.
2. to find, bring, or fetch by searching (often fol. by out or up).
–verb (used without object)
3. to search actively, as in a place or receptacle or within oneself: She rummaged in her mind for the forgotten name.
–noun
4. miscellaneous articles; odds and ends.
5. a rummaging search.
Origin:
1520–30; aph. alter. of MF arrumage, equiv. to arrum(er) to stow goods in the hold of a ship (< ?) + -age -age

Related forms:
rum⋅mag⋅er, noun
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Word Origin & History

rummage 
1526, "act of arranging cargo in a ship," aphetic of M.Fr. arrumage "arrangement of cargo," from arrumer "to stow goods in the hold of a ship," from a- "to" + rumer, probably from Gmc. (cf. O.N. rum "compartment in a ship," O.H.G. rum "space," O.E. rum, see room). Meaning "to search (the hold of a ship) thoroughly" first recorded 1628. Rummage sale (1858) originally was a sale at docks of unclaimed goods.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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