spill tumble fall | a sudden drop from an upright position, he had a nasty spill on the ice |
tumble | an acrobatic feat of rolling or turning end over end |
hassle scuffle tussle dogfight rough-and-tumble | disorderly fighting |
rough-legged hawk roughleg Buteo lagopus | large hawk of the northern hemisphere that feeds chiefly on small rodents and is beneficial to farmers |
rough-skinned newt Taricha granulosa | newt of humid coast from Alaska to southern California |
rough green snake Opheodrys aestivus | of southern and eastern United States |
rough fish | any fish useless for food or sport or even as bait |
draft rough drawing | a preliminary sketch of a design or picture |
tumble-dryer tumble drier | a clothes dryer that spins wet clothes inside a cylinder with heated air |
rough cut | the first print of a movie after preliminary editing |
rough | the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short |
Rough Rider | a member of the volunteer cavalry regiment led by Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War () |
rough-leaved aster | a variety of aster |
rough-stemmed goldenrod | a variety of goldenrod |
witchgrass witch grass old witchgrass old witch grass tumble grass Panicum capillare | North American grass with slender brushy panicles, often a weed on cultivated land |
green bristlegrass green foxtail rough bristlegrass bottle-grass bottle grass Setaria viridis | European foxtail naturalized in North America, often a troublesome weed |
rough bindweed Smilax aspera | creeping or climbing evergreen having spiny zigzag stems with shiny leaves and racemes of pale-green flowers, Canary Islands to southern Europe and Ethiopia and India |
singletary pea Caley pea rough pea wild winterpea Lathyrus hirsutus | a weak-stemmed winter annual native to Mediterranean region for long established in southern United States, cultivated as a cover and pasture crop |
scouring rush rough horsetail Equisetum hyemale Equisetum hyemale robustum Equisetum robustum | evergreen erect horsetail with rough-edged stems, formerly used for scouring utensils |
hard time rough sledding | a difficulty that can be overcome with effort, we had a hard time getting here, analysts predicted rough sledding for handset makers |
choppiness roughness rough water | used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather |
tumble | do gymnastics, roll and turn skillfully |
tumble | suffer a sudden downfall, overthrow, or defeat |
tumble | put clothes in a tumbling barrel, where they are whirled about in hot air, usually with the purpose of drying, Wash in warm water and tumble dry |
tumble dry | dry by spinning with hot air inside a cylinder, These fabrics are delicate and cannot be tumbled dry |
rough-dry | dry without smoothing or ironing, rough-dry the laundry |
tumble | fall suddenly and sharply, Prices tumbled after the devaluation of the currency |
catch on get wise get onto tumble latch on cotton on twig get it | understand, usually after some initial difficulty, She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on |
rough-hew roughcast | hew roughly, without finishing the surface, rough-hew stone or timber |
rough-sand | sand roughly, rough-sand the door before painting it |
rough up | treat violently, The police strong-armed the suspect |
tumble | throw together in a confused mass, They tumbled the teams with no apparent pattern |
rough in rough rough out | prepare in preliminary or sketchy form |
tumble | roll over and over, back and forth |
tumble topple | fall down, as if collapsing, The tower of the World Trade Center tumbled after the plane hit it |
crumble crumple tumble break down collapse | fall apart, the building crumbled after the explosion, Negotiations broke down |
whirl tumble whirl around | fly around, The clothes tumbled in the dryer, rising smoke whirled in the air |
topple tumble tip | cause to topple or tumble by pushing |
rough-house | treat in a rough or boisterous manner |
pugnacious rough | ready and able to resort to force or violence, pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance- Herman Melville, they were rough and determined fighting men |
rough-haired | having hair that feels rough |
grating gravelly rasping raspy rough scratchy | unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound, a gravelly voice |
boisterous fierce rough | violently agitated and turbulent, boisterous winds and waves, the fierce thunders roar me their music- Ezra Pound, rough weather, rough seas |
uncut rough | not shaped by cutting or trimming, an uncut diamond, rough gemstones |
bedraggled broken-down derelict dilapidated ramshackle tatterdemalion tumble-down | in deplorable condition, a street of bedraggled tenements, a broken-down fence, a ramshackle old pier, a tumble-down shack |
rocky rough | full of hardship or trials, the rocky road to success, they were having a rough time |
rough-and-ready | crude but effective for the purpose at hand |
approximate approximative rough | not quite exact or correct, the approximate time wa o'clock, a rough guess, a ballpark estimate |
roughhewn rough-cut | of stone or timber, shaped roughly without finishing |
harsh rough | unkind or cruel or uncivil, had harsh words, a harsh and unlovable old tyrant, a rough answer |