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rub⋅ble

  [ruhb-uhl or, for 3, 4, roo-buhl]
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–noun
1. broken bits and pieces of anything, as that which is demolished: Bombing reduced the town to rubble.
2. any solid substance, as ice, in irregularly broken pieces.
3. rough fragments of broken stone, formed by geological processes, in quarrying, etc., and sometimes used in masonry.
4. masonry built of rough fragments of broken stone.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME rubel, robil < ?; cf. rubbish
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rub·ble   (rŭb'əl)   
n.  

  1. A loose mass of angular fragments of rock or masonry crumbled by natural or human forces.

    1. Irregular fragments or pieces of rock used in masonry.

    2. The masonry made with such rocks.


[Middle English rubel.]
rub'bly adj.
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