Hypertext Webster Gateway: "rubble"

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) 1.7 (wn)

rubble
n : the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken
up [syn: {debris}, {dust}, {junk}, {detritus}]


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