Rummage

Old French arrumage (confer French arrimage), from arrumer ("to arrange the cargo in the hold") (confer French arrimer and Spanish arrumar).

Full definition of rummage

(transitive, nautical) To arrange (cargo, goods, etc.) in the hold of a ship; to move or rearrange such goods.
(transitive, nautical) To search a vessel for smuggled goods.
After the long voyage, the customs officers rummaged the ship.
(transitive) To search something thoroughly and with disregard for the way in which things were arranged.
She rummaged her purse in search of the keys.
The burglars rummaged the entire house for cash and jewellery.

HowellHe...searcheth his pockets, and taketh his keys, and so rummageth all his closets and trunks.
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)What schoolboy of us has not rummaged his Greek dictionary in vain for a satisfactory account!
2013-08-10, Lexington, Keeping the mighty honest, British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.

(intransitive) To hastily search for something in a confined space and among many items by carelessly turning things over or pushing things aside.
She rummaged in the drawers trying to find the missing sock.

1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, Mr. Pratt's Patients Chapter 8, Philander went into the next room...and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.

(plural rummages)

An unorganized collection of miscellaneous objects; a jumble.
(nautical) 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.