Rum·mage n.
 1. Naut. 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. [Obs.]
 2. A searching carefully by looking into every corner, and by turning things over.
    He has made such a general rummage and reform in the office of matrimony.   --Walpole.
 Rummage sale, a clearance sale of unclaimed goods in a public store, or of odds and ends which have accumulated in a shop.


 rummage sale
      n : a sale of donated articles [syn: jumble sale]