Combe vs Rummage - What's the difference?
combe | rummage |
A valley or hollow, often wooded and with no river.
* 1914 , (Saki), ‘The Cobweb’, Beasts and Superbeasts :
* Southey
A cirque.
(nautical) To arrange (cargo, goods, etc.) in the hold of a ship; to move or rearrange such goods.
(nautical) To search a vessel for smuggled goods.
To search something thoroughly and with disregard for the way in which things were arranged.
* Howell
* (Matthew Arnold) (1822-1888)
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
, title= To hastily search for something in a confined space and among many items by carelessly turning things over or pushing things aside.
* , chapter=8
, title= (obsolete) Commotion; disturbance.
A thorough search, usually resulting in disorder.
* Walpole
An unorganized collection of miscellaneous objects; a jumble.
(nautical) A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship; also, the act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage; formerly written romage .
As nouns the difference between combe and rummage
is that combe is a valley or hollow, often wooded and with no river while rummage is commotion; disturbance.As a verb rummage is
to arrange (cargo, goods, etc.) in the hold of a ship; to move or rearrange such goods.combe
English
(wikipedia combe)Alternative forms
* comb * coomb * coombeNoun
(en noun)- its long, latticed window [...] looked out on a wild spreading view of hill and heather and wooded combe .
- A gradual rise the shelving combe displayed.
Usage notes
* Used, especially in South West England, in many placenames ----rummage
English
Verb
(rummag)- Hesearcheth his pockets, and taketh his keys, and so rummageth all his closets and trunks.
- What schoolboy of us has not rummaged his Greek dictionary in vain for a satisfactory account!
Keeping the mighty honest, passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Philander went into the next room
Noun
(en noun)- He has such a general rummage and reform in the office of matrimony.
Quotations
''"And this, I take it,- Horatio, in "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 1 l 103-106
''Is the main motive of our preparations
''The source of this our watch, and the chief head
Of this post-haste and rummage in the land."