rummaging

English

Verb

rummaging

1. present participle and gerund of rummage

Noun

rummaging (plural rummagings)

1. The act of one who rummages.
   • 1905, Henry James, The Golden Bowl, page 400:

     There was always the impossibility, of course, of finding him anything, the least bit "good," that he wouldn't already, long ago, in his rummagings, have seen himself […]