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Webster 1913 Edition
Rubble
1.
Water-worn or rough broken stones; broken bricks, etc., used in coarse masonry, or to fill up between the facing courses of walls.
Inside [the wall] there was
rubble
or mortar. Jowett (Thucyd.).
2.
Rough stone as it comes from the quarry; also, a quarryman’s term for the upper fragmentary and decomposed portion of a mass of stone; brash.
Brande & C.
3.
(Geol.)
A mass or stratum of fragments or rock lying under the alluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock.
Lyell.
4.
pl.
The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.
[Prov. Eng.]
Simmonds.
Coursed rubble
, rubble masonry in which courses are formed by leveling off the work at certain heights.
Webster 1828 Edition
Rubble
RUBBLE
, for rubbish, vulgar and not used.Definition 2024
rubble
rubble
English
Noun
rubble (countable and uncountable, plural rubbles)
- The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.
- 2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:
- Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. […] Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
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- (geology) A mass or stratum of fragments of rock lying under the alluvium and derived from the neighbouring rock.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Lyell to this entry?)
- (Britain, dialect, in the plural) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Simmonds to this entry?)
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Translations
the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
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References
- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition
- ↑ “rubble” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).