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noun
1.
a disorderly crowd; mob.
2.
the rabble, the lower classes; the common people: The nobility held the rabble in complete contempt.
verb (used with object)
3.
to beset as a rabble does; mob.
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Rabble
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Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English rabel (noun), of uncertain origin
1350–1400; Middle English rabel (noun), of uncertain origin
Example Sentences
- Confronting that rabble will only excite them even more.
- Heavy depredations are made upon private property to sustain an armed rabble.
- The despised rabble must be ruled by those who are more enlightened and divine.
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noun
1.
a tool or mechanically operated device used for stirring or mixing a charge in a roasting furnace.
verb (used with object)
2.
to stir (a charge) in a roasting furnace.
Origin:
1655–65; < French râble fire-shovel, tool, Middle French raable < Latin rutābulum implement for shifting hot coals, equivalent to *rutā(re) presumed frequentative of ruere to churn up, disturb + -bulum suffix of instrument
1655–65; < French râble fire-shovel, tool, Middle French raable < Latin rutābulum implement for shifting hot coals, equivalent to *rutā(re) presumed frequentative of ruere to churn up, disturb + -bulum suffix of instrument
Related forms
rab·bler, noun
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Word Origin & History
rabble
c.1300, "pack of animals," possibly related to M.E. rabeln "speak in a rapid, confused manner," probably imitative of hurry and confusion (cf. M.Du. rabbelen, Low Ger. rabbeln "to chatter"). Meaning "tumultuous crowd of people" is first recorded 1513; applied contemptuously to the common or low part
EXPAND of any populace from 1553. Rabble-rousing first attested 1802 in Sydney Smith.
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