Rubble

Rubble
Rubble Rub"ble, n. [From an assumed Old French dim. of robe See {Rubbish}.] 1. Water-worn or rough broken stones; broken bricks, etc., used in coarse masonry, or to fill up between the facing courses of walls. [1913 Webster]

Inside [the wall] there was rubble or mortar. --Jowett (Thucyd.). [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

3. (Geol.) A mass or stratum of fragments or rock lying under the alluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock. --Lyell. [1913 Webster]

4. pl. The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc. [Prov. Eng.] --Simmonds. [1913 Webster]

{Coursed rubble}, rubble masonry in which courses are formed by leveling off the work at certain heights. [1913 Webster]


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  • rubble — [rub′əl] n. [ME robel; akin to RUBBISH, RUB] 1. rough, irregular, loose fragments of rock, broken from larger bodies either by natural processes or artificially, as by blasting 2. masonry made of rubble; rubblework 3. debris from buildings, etc …   English World dictionary

  • rubble — (n.) c.1400, from Anglo Norm. *robel bits of broken stone, probably related to RUBBISH (Cf. rubbish), but also possibly from O.Fr. robe (see ROB (Cf. rob)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • rubble — ► NOUN ▪ rough fragments of stone, brick, concrete, etc., especially as the debris from the demolition of buildings. DERIVATIVES rubbly adjective. ORIGIN perhaps from Old French robe spoils ; compare with RUBBISH(Cf. ↑rubbishy) …   English terms dictionary

  • Rubble — For other uses, see Rubble (disambiguation). Rubble is broken stone, of irregular size, shape and texture. This word is closely connected in derivation with rubbish , which was formerly also applied to what we now call rubble . Rubble naturally… …   Wikipedia

  • rubble — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ building (esp. BrE) … OF RUBBLE ▪ heap, pile ▪ What was once a house was now a crumbling heap of rubble. VERB + RUBBLE …   Collocations dictionary

  • rubble — [[t]rʌ̱b(ə)l[/t]] 1) N UNCOUNT When a building is destroyed, the pieces of brick, stone, or other materials that remain are referred to as rubble. Thousands of bodies are still buried under the rubble... Entire suburbs have been reduced to rubble …   English dictionary

  • rubble — n. 1) a heap, pile of rubble 2) (misc.) to reduce smt. to rubble * * * [ rʌb(ə)l] pile of rubble (misc.) to reduce smt. to rubble a heap …   Combinatory dictionary

  • rubble — I. noun Etymology: Middle English robyl Date: 14th century 1. a. broken fragments (as of rock) resulting from the decay or destruction of a building < fortifications knocked into rubble C. S. Forester > b. a miscellaneous confused mass or group… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • rubble — rub|ble [ rʌbl ] noun uncount broken pieces of stone and brick from buildings, walls, etc. that have been destroyed: reduce something to rubble (=destroy it completely): A bomb reduced the houses to rubble …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • rubble — UK [ˈrʌb(ə)l] / US noun [uncountable] broken pieces of stone and brick from buildings, walls etc that have been destroyed reduce something to rubble (= destroy it completely): A bomb reduced the houses to rubble …   English dictionary

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