humorous. [irreg. f. TUMBLE v. + -FICATION.] Tumbling, falling, or tossing; esp. the pitching and rolling of a ship in a storm.
1833. M. Scott, Tom Cringle, xi. (1859), 250. Then another Tumblification of the whole party.
1881. Clark Russell, Ocean Free Lance, II. iv. 169. The tumblification was sometimes so furious that we had to hold on with our hands to save ourselves.
1884. Catharine Cole, in Daily Picayune, 6 July, 9/2. I stopped to peep in at the grimed windows, on the solitary looking desks littered, but with a litter that somehow betokened idleness, and the carelessness of unprosperousness, not the real tumblefication of a busy worker.
1890. Chamb. Jrnl., 14 June, 371. The jerky, feverish, staggering, tumblefication of the wreck.
