Rabble
['ræb(ə)l] or ['ræbl]
Definition
(n.) An iron bar, with the end bent, used in stirring or skimming molten iron in the process of puddling.
(v. t.) To stir or skim with a rabble, as molten iron.
(v. i.) To speak in a confused manner.
(v. i.) A tumultuous crowd of vulgar, noisy people; a mob; a confused, disorderly throng.
(v. i.) A confused, incoherent discourse; a medley of voices; a chatter.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a rabble; like, or suited to, a rabble; disorderly; vulgar.
(v. t.) To insult, or assault, by a mob; to mob; as, to rabble a curate.
(v. t.) To utter glibly and incoherently; to mouth without intelligence.
(v. t.) To rumple; to crumple.
Typed by Doreen
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Mob, rout, rabble-rout, tumultuous crowd.[2]. Populace, commonalty, CANAILLE, herd, dregs of the people, the common people, scum of society, lowest class of people, lower classes, the masses, riff-raff, swinish multitude, ignoble vulgar, vulgar herd, RAG-TAG-AND-BOB-TAIL.
Editor: Simon
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Crowd, mob, scum, dregs, riff-raff, vulgar_herd, disorderly_crowd, canaille
ANT:Elite, aristocracy, galaxy, upper_ten,[See (U.S.)]
Edited by Candice
Definition
n. an iron bar used in puddling.—v.t. to stir with a rabble.—n. Rabb′ler.
n. a disorderly noisy crowd: a mob: the lowest class of people.—adj. disorderly.—v.i. to utter nonsense.—v.t. (Scot.) to mob.—ns. Rabb′lement a tumultuous crowd of low people; Rabb′ling (Scot.) the act of assaulting in a disorderly manner mobbing.
Editor: Zeke
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. In a republic those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections. The rabble is like the sacred Simurgh of Arabian fable—omnipotent on condition that it do nothing. (The word is Aristocratese and has no exact equivalent in our tongue but means as nearly as may be 'soaring swine. ')
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Examples
- He waxes strong in all violence and lawlessness; and is ready for any deed of daring that will supply the wants of his rabble-rout. Plato. The Republic.
- And how short while would these rabble villains stand to endure your encounter! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- He stood up to defend Aspasia, he was seized by a storm of very human emotion, and as he spoke he wept--a gleeful thing for the rabble. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Of course we were besieged by a rabble of muscular Egyptians and Arabs who wanted the contract of dragging us to the top--all tourists are. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A single basket made of moss, once containing plovers' eggs, held all that the poulterer had to say to the rabble. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Now, to think of these vagabonds,' said he, 'attracting the young rabble from a model school. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- It almost warrants the enthusiasm of the spies of that rabble of adventurers who captured Dan. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Be the cause what it may, it was the end of the _Gloria Scott_ and of the rabble who held command of her. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- At our landing, the captain forced me to cover myself with his cloak, to prevent the rabble from crowding about me. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- They positively deserve that one should turn a mad cow in amongst them to rout their rabble-ranks. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- We have described how by Cort's puddling process tremendous labour was imposed on the workmen in stirring the molten metal by hand with rabbles. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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