These are the meanings of the letters BETLMUBE when you unscramble them.
- Bumble (n.)
The bittern.
- Bumble (v. i.)
To make a hollow or humming noise, like that of a bumblebee; to cry as a bittern.
- Tumble (n.)
Act of tumbling, or rolling over; a fall.
- Tumble (v. i.)
To play tricks by various movements and contortions of the body; to perform the feats of an acrobat.
- Tumble (v. i.)
To roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to be precipitated; as, to tumble from a scaffold.
- Tumble (v. i.)
To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person on pain tumbles and tosses.
- Tumble (v. t.)
To disturb; to rumple; as, to tumble a bed.
- Tumble (v. t.)
To turn over; to turn or throw about, as for examination or search; to roll or move in a rough, coarse, or unceremonious manner; to throw down or headlong; to precipitate; -- sometimes with over, about, etc.; as, to tumble books or papers.