rubble : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: rubble	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for rubble
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rubble n the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up Synonym(s): debris, dust, junk, rubble, detritus
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.