Rubble

['rʌb(ə)l] or ['rʌbl]

Definition

(n.) Water-worn or rough broken stones; broken bricks, etc., used in coarse masonry, or to fill up between the facing courses of walls.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A mass or stratum of fragments or rock lying under the alluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock.

(n.) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.

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Definition

n. the upper fragmentary decomposed matter of a mass of rock: water-worn stones: small undressed stones used in coarse masonry.—ns. Rubb′le-stone (same as Rubble): also (geol.) a kind of conglomerate rock; Rubb′le-work a coarse kind of masonry of stones left almost as they come from the quarry or only dressed a little with the hammer.—adj. Rubb′ly.

Typed by Justine