1. (Naut.)
Defn: To make room in, as a ship, for the cargo; to move about, as packages, ballast, so as to permit close stowage; to stow closely; to pack; — formerly written roomage, and romage. [Obs.] They night bring away a great deal more than they do, if they would take pain in the romaging. Hakluyt.
2. To search or examine thoroughly by looking into every corner, and turning over or removing goods or other things; to examine, as a book, carefully, turning over leaf after leaf. He . . . searcheth his pockets, and taketh his keys, and so rummageth all his closets and trunks. Howell. What schoolboy of us has not rummaged his Greek dictionary in vain for a satisfactory account! M. Arnold.
RUMMAGE
Rum"mage, v. i.
Defn: To search a place narrowly.
I have often rummaged for old books in Little Britain and Duck Lane.
Swift.
[His house] was haunted with a jolly ghost, that . . . . . . rummaged
like a rat. Tennyson.
RUMMAGER
Rum"ma*ger, n.
1. One who rummages.
2. (Naut.)
Defn: A person on shipboard whose business was to take charge of stowing the cargo; — formerly written roomager, and romager. [Obs.] The master must provide a perfect mariner, called a romager, to range and bestow all merchandise. Hakluyt .
RUMMER Rum"mer (, n. Etym: [D. roemer, romer, akin to G. römer, Sw. remmare; perhaps properly, Roman.]