Usually means: Search thoroughly through various items.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word rummage:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. rummage: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. rummage: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rummage: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. rummage: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rummage: Vocabulary.com
  6. Rummage, rummage: Wordnik
  7. rummage: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Rummage, rummage: Wiktionary
  9. rummage: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. rummage: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. rummage: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Rummage, rummage: Dictionary.com
  13. rummage: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. rummage: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Rummage: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. rummage: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. rummage: Rhymezone
  18. rummage: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. rummage: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. rummage: Free Dictionary
  21. rummage: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. rummage: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. rummage: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rummage: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rummage: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rummage: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. rummage: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See rummaged as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, nautical) To arrange (cargo, goods, etc.) in the hold of a ship; to move or rearrange such goods.
verb:  (transitive, nautical) To search a vessel for smuggled goods.
verb:  (transitive) To search something thoroughly and with disregard for the way in which things were arranged.
verb:  (intransitive) To hastily search for something in a confined space and among many items by carelessly turning things over or pushing things aside.
noun:  A thorough search, usually resulting in disorder.
noun:  (obsolete) Commotion; disturbance.
noun:  A disorganized collection of miscellaneous objects; a jumble.
noun:  (nautical) A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship.
noun:  (nautical) The act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage.
noun:  A surname from German.

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