0 to search for something by moving things around carelessly and looking into, under, and behind them: --
1 a search for something that involves moving things around carelessly and looking into, under, and behind them: --
2 to search for something by moving things around without care and looking into, under, and behind them: --
As one goes round a building, it should not be necessary to have a guide or to have to rummage in a book for information, particularly in relation to architecture.
First of all, we are to rummage the mails.
If a police officer applies for a warrant and finds no evidence, but rummaging through the papers finds evidence of something else, is he entitled to use that evidence?
That saved us rummaging on the floor in the piles of paperwork to find the relevant document.
The power which is given here is to rummage.
I have no doubt that as further dusty archives are rummaged it will not be long before 60 will be an understatement.
For instance, if the police are looking for stolen video recorders, they cannot go rummaging through correspondence and documents.
The policeman comes in and rummages his house, looking through everything that is there.
