In the mean while the skies 'gan rumble sore.
--Surrey.
The people cried and rombled up and down. --Chaucer.
To rumble gently down with murmur soft. --Spenser.
Delighting ever in rumble that is new. --Chaucer.
2. A low, heavy, continuous sound like that made by heavy
wagons or the reverberation of thunder; a confused noise;
as, the rumble of a railroad train.
Clamor and rumble, and ringing and clatter.
--Tennyson.
Merged in the rumble of awakening day. --H. James.
3. A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.
Kit, well wrapped, . . . was in the rumble behind.
--Dickens.
4. A rotating cask or box in which small articles are
smoothed or polished by friction against each other.