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tumble: the orig. sense ‘to roll’ (trans. and intr.) is prominent:— Tp. II. ii. 11 “hedge-hogs, which Lie tumbling in my bare-foot way,” John III. iv. 176 “a little snow, t-d about, Anon becomes a mountain,” Per. II. i. 34 [the whale] “plays and t-s”; in indelicate sense Wint. IV. ii. [iii.] 12, Ham. IV. v. 63, Ant. I. iv. 17; in nautical use “t-d,” ‘rolled’ about the trough of the sea Per. V. Gower 13 “t-d and tost” (Qq1-3 “wee there him left”).
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.
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