rummage

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

RUM'MAGE, noun A searching carefully by looking into every corner and by tumbling over things. RUM'MAGE, verb transitive [Latin rimor.] To search narrowly by looking into every corner and turning over or removing goods or other things. Our greedy seamen rummage every hold. RUM'MAGE, verb intransitive To search a place narrowly by looking among things. I have often rummaged for old books in Little-Britain and Duck-Lane.
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