'Rummage sale' definitions:
Definition of 'rummage sale'
(from WordNet)
noun
A sale of donated articles [syn: rummage sale, jumble sale]
Definition of 'Rummage sale'
From: GCIDE
- Rummage \Rum"mage\ (?; 48), n. [For roomage, fr. room; hence originally, a making room, a packing away closely. See Room.]
- 1. (Naut.) 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. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 2. A searching carefully by looking into every corner, and by turning things over. [1913 Webster]
- He has made such a general rummage and reform in the office of matrimony. --Walpole. [1913 Webster]
- Rummage sale, a clearance sale of unclaimed goods in a public store, or of odds and ends which have accumulated in a shop. --Simmonds. [1913 Webster]