[ruhm-ij] 
verb, -maged, -mag⋅ing, noun | 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). |
| 3. | to search actively, as in a place or receptacle or within oneself: She rummaged in her mind for the forgotten name. |
| 4. | miscellaneous articles; odds and ends. |
| 5. | a rummaging search. |
| rum·mage (rŭm'ĭj) v. rum·maged, rum·mag·ing, rum·mag·es v. tr.
To make an energetic, usually hasty search. n.
[From earlier romage, act of packing cargo, from French arrumage, from Old French, from arumer, to stow, from Old Provençal arumar : a-, to (from Latin ad-; see ad-) + perhaps run, ship's hold (of Germanic origin; see reuə- in Indo-European roots).] rum'mag·er n. |