rubble
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Etymology[edit]
From Middle English rouble, rubel, robel, robeil, from Anglo-Norman *robel (“bits of broken stone”). Presumably related to rubbish, originally of same meaning (bits of stone).[1] Ultimately presumably from Proto-Germanic *raub- (“to break”), perhaps via Old French robe (English rob (“steal”)) in sense of “plunder, destroy”;[2] see also Middle English, Middle French -el.
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Noun[edit]
rubble (countable and uncountable, plural rubbles)
- The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.
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2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:
- 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.
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- (geology) A mass or stratum of fragments of rock lying under the alluvium and derived from the neighbouring rock.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Lyell to this entry?)
- (Britain, dialect, in the plural) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Simmonds to this entry?)
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Translations[edit]
the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry
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References[edit]
- ^ Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition
- ^ “rubble” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).
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