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Rummager


Definition:

  • (n.) One who rummages.
  • (n.) A person on shipboard whose business was to take charge of stowing the cargo; -- formerly written roomager, and romager.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Blood gutters brightly against his green gown, yet the man doesn't shudder or stagger or sink but trudges towards them on those tree-trunk legs and rummages around, reaches at their feet and cops hold of his head and hoists it high, and strides to his steed, snatches the bridle, steps into the stirrup and swings into the saddle still gripping his head by a handful of hair.
  • (2) The song ended on an emotional warble, then Nicolas rummaged in a drawer and handed me a small circle of cloth.
  • (3) I was on my way to one of those exclusive parties when I saw Mom from the taxi window; she was on the sidewalk rummaging through the trash.
  • (4) Port Gaverne , a little cove near Port Isaac always described as "quaint", is a good place to watch seals (and occasional basking sharks, dolphins and porpoises), go fishing or rummage in rock pools.
  • (5) When he was at Heinemann in the 1980s, he was rummaging through unsolicited manuscripts and came across Roddy Doyle's The Commitments and the first chapter of Bill Bryson's The Lost Continent.
  • (6) I'd come into his flat and rummage around in his private mail.
  • (7) Rummage boxes, sensory gardens and music sessions are prominent examples of tools used in our programme to help residents recall thoughts and experiences of their lives prior to developing dementia.
  • (8) You’ve gone through the most physically demanding and painful hours of your life, then when you finally get to hold your baby, your sense of euphoria is knocked out of you and there are suddenly people quite literally rummaging inside your body.
  • (9) Umunna won over an audience of business leaders when he produced his late father’s IoD membership card, that he found after rummaging through a box kept by his mother.
  • (10) The Knowledge has rummaged furiously through its annals, but just can't beat that.
  • (11) We end our conversation with his party's rum assortment of allies in the European parliament , and another chance to rummage through more arcane rightwing parties that do their thing in Brussels: among them, Helsinki's own True Finns, and the United Poland party.
  • (12) Born the youngest of five children into a working-class family in Lambeth, south London, he had had his first brushes with the law as a teenager during the second world war, when he would rummage through bombed-out buildings and help himself to what he found.
  • (13) The story begins with his colonial childhood in Kenya and Nyasaland (now Malawi), and is full of dusty anecdotes of our young hero rummaging without a care in the great African outdoors.
  • (14) In the background, John Terry's camp succeeded in planting a series of stories and photos that portrayed him as a happy family man, taking his wife out to the theatre and showing her how to fish while the tabloids rummaged in Perroncel's family history – her parents' divorce, her father's suicide, her supposed lack of money as a child (implying a current obsession).
  • (15) For more classic knowledge, click here MORE VIOLENT TESTIMONIALS Last week , rummaging through the Knowledge archive, Wayne Ziants came across a question about trouble at testimonials and felt moved to remind us of the hi-jinks at Alan Cork's benefit match in Plough Lane on 16 May 1988.
  • (16) "We have entered a new world but, as the court today recognised, our old values still apply and limit the government's ability to rummage through the intimate details of our private lives," Shapiro said in a statement.
  • (17) I hastily write a response in the affirmative, then rummage through my desk for a sheet of stamps, grab my cap and coat, and drop the letter into the mailbox.
  • (18) I would go to the library, or get books at rummage sales.
  • (19) I rummage through my pockets for the 1.5 birr (5p) fare as passengers clamber on and off at regular intervals before we reach the Bole bridge bus terminal.
  • (20) Get your reporter to STOP rummaging thru belongings at #mH17 crash site.

Stow


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To place or arrange in a compact mass; to put in its proper place, or in a suitable place; to pack; as, to stowbags, bales, or casks in a ship's hold; to stow hay in a mow; to stow sheaves.
  • (v. t.) To put away in some place; to hide; to lodge.
  • (v. t.) To arrange anything compactly in; to fill, by packing closely; as, to stow a box, car, or the hold of a ship.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Emily Stow London • Until I retired a year ago I was a consultant anaesthetist with a special interest in obstetric anaesthesia and analgesia.
  • (2) "Stowe was one of the most important political gardens of the 18th century, open to the public then, and still open today," she says.
  • (3) And on a sudden impulse, I stowed this little stolen memento of the time I saw the hawks in my inside jacket pocket and went home.
  • (4) His successor must also respond to a world in which more and more screens are stowed in the pocket and viewed on the move.
  • (5) The CO2 electrode concept had occurred to Gesell in 1925, but for measurement of gas only, and to Gertz and Loeschcke, who were unaware of the Stow-Severinghaus electrode, in 1958.
  • (6) With the normal seats stowed away, the Jocks – as the men are known – arranged themselves on the floors of the helicopters, legs tucked around the man in front of them and the bulky rifles, rocket launchers, radios and other kit.
  • (7) They believed they wanted to take control and believed Britain would be better off … These kind of awful things are done by a minority who come from the sewers who want to exploit division and have their own racist agenda.” Map Halfon, who backed remain, added: “All of us need to stand up for tolerance and kindness and against any kind of division.” Police in Harlow have been given the power to order anyone involved in crime or harassment to leave The Stow.
  • (8) He decided he would start stowing away rare indigenous grape varieties with the goal of preserving as much diversity as he could.
  • (9) The classrooms have hooks on the back wall to stow jackets and bags, to stop them getting in the way.
  • (10) Southwark Cathedral, once the parish church of St Mary Overie, doesn’t seem particularly far away, it has to be said but this could, nonetheless, be what Stow was talking about.
  • (11) It's manual labor, basically doing inventory counts or stowing inventory," he explains.
  • (12) Trump’s plane does without the emergency medical facilities secreted on Air Force One, which has an operating table discreetly stowed in a wall like a fold-up bed.
  • (13) A Metropolitan police spokesman said today that he was arrested for stowing away in an aircraft contrary to the Air Navigation Order 2009.
  • (14) Didn’t they have anything other than Sambo-blaaaak babies?” The word “sambo”, and the caricature attached to it, has a multinational history – from its use in Latin American Spanish to refer to a person of Native American and African heritage, to the overseer in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, to the children’s book The Story of Little Black Sambo in which a South Indian boy tricks a gang of hungry tigers.
  • (15) According to the Civil Aviation Authority, 2.4m tonnes of air cargo has been carried in and out of the UK in the year to date, two-thirds of it stowed in the holds of passenger planes.
  • (16) The man who crashed to earth in a south-west London suburb on Sunday made his doomed attempt to stow away to Heathrow on a British Airways plane flying from Luanda, the Angolan capital, flight data records and a handful of money suggest.
  • (17) New reports documenting the dangers of the camp are published every week; on Monday Unicef research suggested that the Calais refugee children were risking their lives 2,000 times a week to reach Britain, trying to stow away in lorries or jump on trains.
  • (18) Speaking just days after it emerged British police stepped in to rescue a seven-year-old Afghan boy who had stowed in a lorry from the French port, after he sent a text he was suffocating, Alf Dubs has called on the prime minister to take urgent action to provide a safe passage for child refugees.
  • (19) One Sudanese man said: “I would never try in Belgium because there the port is international, you wouldn’t know where you’re going if you stowed away.” Several were afraid of going to the Netherlands for fear that, if they were caught by police, they would be forced to declare asylum on the spot.
  • (20) Lord Cobham built the New Inn in 1717 to feed and water visitors to the extraordinary front garden at his palatial home at Stowe: 250 acres studded with temples, columns, arches, obelisks, cascades, grottoes, and lakes.

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