1. rummage - Noun
2. rummage - Verb
3. Rummage - Proper noun
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.
A searching carefully by looking into every corner, and by turning things over.
To make room in, as a ship, for the cargo; to move about, as packages, ballast, so as to permit close stowage; to stow closely; to pack; -- formerly written roomage, and romage.
To search or examine thoroughly by looking into every corner, and turning over or removing goods or other things; to examine, as a book, carefully, turning over leaf after leaf.
To search a place narrowly.
Source: Webster's dictionaryOur insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature. Al Gore
The warrant did not give the power to rummage through the journalist's files,” Leiderman said, adding "there is no indication of why all this information needed to be seized. Jay Leiderman
When you go onto the internet, if you really rummage around randomly then how do you hope to find something of any of value? Tim Berners-Lee
My mother used to take me to flea markets in my stroller, and I would just rummage through the piles. You've got to dig through the overstuffed racks that everyone else just walks by. It's the only way to find the cool stuff. Lily Collins
he gave the attic a good rummage but couldn't find his skis Source: Internet
We rummaged through the drawers Source: Internet