rummage

Meanings

Verb

• To arrange (cargo, goods, etc.) in the hold of a ship; to move or rearrange such goods.
• To search a vessel for smuggled goods.
• To search something thoroughly and with disregard for the way in which things were arranged.

Noun

• A thorough search, usually resulting in disorder.
• Commotion; disturbance.
• A disorganized collection of miscellaneous objects; a jumble.
• A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship.
• The act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage.

Origin

• From Old French arrumage (confer French arrimage), from arrumer (confer French arrimer and Spanish arrumar).