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rubble |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: rubble n : the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up [syn: {debris}, {dust}, {junk}, {detritus}]
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