tumbling

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

TUM'BLING, participle present tense Rolling about; falling; disturbing; rumpling. Tumbling-home, in a ship, is the inclination of the top-sides from a perpendicular, towards the center of the ship; or the part of a ship which falls inward above the extreme breadth.
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