About The Word Rubble
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Rubble
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What's The Definition Of Rubble?
[n] the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
Synonyms | Synonyms for Rubble: debris | detritus | dust | junk Related Terms | Find terms related to Rubble: Rubble In Webster's Dictionary \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.
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