Definitions
a sudden drop from an upright position
Word origin
From Middle English tumblen (“to fall over and over again, tumble”), frequentative of Middle English tumben (“to fall, leap, dance”), from Old English tumbian, from Proto-Germanic *tūmōną (“to turn, rotate”). Cognate with Middle Dutch tumelen (whence Dutch tuimelen), Middle Low German tumelen, tummelen, German taumeln and Danish tumle.
Used in a sentence
“I took a tumble down the stairs and broke my tooth.”
“When at last we stopped in a tumble of bodies on the grass, laughing, and in Dad's case, out of breath, we were like little kids (I mean 5 or 6! After all I am 12!) at the end of a playground session.”
“Wouldn't it be jolly now, / To take our Aertex panters off / And have a jolly tumble in / The jolly, jolly sun?”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Take a spill”6 letters
02“Fall head over heels”6 letters
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