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rumble

noun
/ˈɹʌmb(ə)l/US/ˈɹɐmb(ə)l/

Etymology

From Middle English rumblen, romblen, rummelyn, frequentative form of romen (“to roar”), equivalent to rome + -le. Cognate with Dutch rommelen (“to rumble”), Low German rummeln (“to rumble”), German rumpeln (“to be noisy”), Danish rumle (“to rumble”), all of imitative origin. Compare typologically Russian громи́ть (gromítʹ), погро́м (pogróm), разгро́м (razgróm) (akin to гром (grom), греме́ть (gremétʹ), громыха́ть (gromyxátʹ)). Also compare гро́хнуть (gróxnutʹ) (akin to гро́хот (gróxot)).

  1. inherited from rumblen

Definitions

  1. A low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach.

    • The rumble from passing trucks made it hard to sleep at night.

  2. A street fight or brawl.

  3. A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction…

    A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.

  4. ›+ 12 more definitions

    1. A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.

      • Kit, well wrapped, […] was in the rumble behind.
      • "I never was so sorry for any thing as for Mr. Glentworth's death," said Isabella Granard, endeavouring to screen her face from a small, sharp rain, to which her place in the rumble of a travelling carriage left her quite exposed.

    2. To make a low, heavy, continuous sound.

      • If I don't eat, my stomach will rumble.
      • I could hear the thunder rumbling in the distance.

    3. To discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour.

      • The police is going to rumble your hideout.

    4. To move while making a rumbling noise.

      • The truck rumbled over the rough road.
      • As the train rumbled slowly over the Forth Bridge, the western sky was aflame with a particularly gorgeous sunset, and lights were twinkling from the small craft riding at anchor on the calm waters of the firth.
      • Henderson, beginning a mini-run in the team with David de Gea on paternity leave, threw out to the left flank and Shaw had only one thought – to rumble upfield.

    5. To fight

      To fight; to brawl.

    6. To provide haptic feedback by vibrating.

    7. To cause to pass through a rumble, or polishing machine.

    8. To murmur

      To murmur; to ripple.

      • The trembling streams which wont in channels clear To rumble gently down with murmur soft,[…]

    9. An onomatopoeia describing a rumbling noise

    10. A surname.

    11. An unincorporated community in Pike County, Indiana, United States.

    12. An unincorporated community in Boone County, West Virginia, United States.

The neighborhood

Derived

headset rumble, rumblement, rumble seat, rumblesome, rumble strip, rumble-tumble, rumbly, let's get ready to rumble, rumble on, rumbler

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for rumble. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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