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rubble

noun
/ˈɹʌb.əl/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English rouble, rubel, robel, robeil, from Anglo-Norman *robel (“bits of broken stone”). Presumably related to rubbish, originally of same meaning (waste material, bits of stone, rubble). Ultimately presumably from Old Norse rubba (“to huddle, crowd together, heap up", possibly also "to rub, scrape”), from Proto-Germanic *rubbōną (“to rub, scrape”), related to Proto-Germanic *reufaną (“to tear”), *raubōną (“to rob, steal, plunder”), perhaps via Old French robe (English rob (“steal”)) in sense of “plunder, destroy”; see also Middle English, Middle French -el.

  1. derived from robe
  2. derived from *rubbōną✻ — “to rub, scrape”
  3. derived from rubba — “to huddle, crowd together, heap up", possibly also "to rub, scrape”
  4. derived from *robel✻ — “bits of broken stone”
  5. inherited from rouble,rubel,robel,robeil

Definitions

  1. The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.

    • The main East Coast line from Edinburgh to Berwick was blocked at Cockburnspath and Grantshouse by flood water, which washed away part of an embankment, and by the collapse of about 300 tons of rubble on to the track.
    • Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.[…]Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.

  2. A mass or stratum of fragments of rock lying under the alluvium and derived from the…

    A mass or stratum of fragments of rock lying under the alluvium and derived from the neighbouring rock.

    • The overlying beds are composed of such calcareous rubble and flints, rudely stratified

  3. The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. To break down into rubble.

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Derived

bounce rubble, bounce the rubble, rubble crab, rubble pile, rubblestone, rubblework, rubblization, rubblize, rubbly

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA