(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.
“The fearless rummagers lower themselves into the darkened, often lethal bowels and engine rooms of commercial vessels in search of ingeniously stashed contraband.”
“Once the skip dumpers had finished, the skip rummagers moved in.”