'Rubble' definitions:
Definition of 'rubble'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Rubble'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Inside [the wall] there was rubble or mortar. --Jowett (Thucyd.). [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Geol.) A mass or stratum of fragments or rock lying under the alluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock. --Lyell. [1913 Webster]
- 4. pl. The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc. [Prov. Eng.] --Simmonds. [1913 Webster]
- Coursed rubble, rubble masonry in which courses are formed by leveling off the work at certain heights. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'rubble'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aa,
- abyssal rock,
- basalt,
- bedrock,
- block lava,
- brash,
- breccia,
- clamjamfry,
- conglomerate,
- crag,
- debris,
- druid stone,
- dust,
- festooned pahoehoe,
- gneiss,
- granite,
- igneous rock,
- junk,
- lava,
- limestone,
- litter,
- living rock,
- lumber,
- magma,
- mantlerock,
- metamorphic rock,
- monolith,
- pahoehoe,
- pillow lava,
- porphyry,
- pudding stone,
- raff,
- regolith,
- riffraff,
- rock,
- ropy lava,
- rubbish,
- rubblestone,
- sandstone,
- sarsen,
- schist,
- scoria,
- scrap,
- scree,
- sedimentary rock,
- shelly pahoehoe,
- shoddy,
- stone,
- talus,
- trash,
- truck,
- tufa,
- tuff