ppl. a. [f. TUMBLE v. + -ED1.] That has tumbled or fallen; that has been thrown, tossed, or pitched down, together, etc.; also, tousled, disordered, rumpled.
1649. G. Daniel, Trinarch., Hen. V., cclxxxvii. Stand Harrie … Whose tumbled Character, tooke from the Life, Has but resemblance.
1727. Pope, etc., Art of Sinking, 79. If he looks upon a tempest, he shall have an image of a tumbled bed.
1815. Scott, Guy M., xxxvii. [A preacher with] no gown, not even that of Geneva, a tumbled band [etc.].
1857. Dufferin, Lett. High Lat. (ed. 3), 7. An amphitheatre of tumbled porphyry hills.
1872. Black, Adv. Phaeton, xiv. Bell was seated on a bit of tumbled pillar.
1891. trans. Didon’s Jesus Christ, I. III. vii. 388. The old basalt walls of the tumbled-down houses … are still to be distinguished.
1895. Zangwill, Master, 443. Poets with lack-lustre visages and tumbled hair.
1907. Daily Chron., 11 Nov., 4/4. We read in these tumbled-together books the progress of a nation through all its stages.
