4. To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; — with on, upon, or against. Ovid stumbled, by some inadvertency, upon Livia in a bath. Dryden. Forth as she waddled in the brake, A gray goose stumbled on a snake. C. Smart.
STUMBLE
Stum"ble, v. t.
1. To cause to stumble or trip.
2. Fig.: To mislead; to confound; to perplex; to cause to err or to
fall.
False and dazzling fires to stumble men. Milton.
One thing more stumbles me in the very foundation of this hypothesis.
Locke.
STUMBLE
Stum"ble, n.
1. A trip in walking or running.
2. A blunder; a failure; a fall from rectitude. One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life. L'Estrange.
STUMBLER
Stum"bler, n.
Defn: One who stumbles.
STUMBLING-BLOCK
Stum"bling-block`, n.