Rubble /(?)/
Rub·ble
Rubble
n.
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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.
- 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.
- A mass or stratum of fragments or rock lying under the alluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock. (Geol.)
- The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc. [Prov. Eng.]
Phrases & Compounds
- Coursed rubble
- rubble masonry in which courses are formed by leveling off the work at certain heights.