Category:Rubble

Rub"ble, n. Etym: [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. Inside [the wall] there was rubble or mortar. Jowett (thucyd. ).

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.

3. (geol.)

Defn: a mass or stratum of fragments or rock lying under the Alluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock. Lyell.

4. pl.

Defn: the whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into Pollard, bran, etc. [prov.Eng.] Simmonds. Coursed rubble, rubble Masonry in which courses are formed by leveling off the work at Certain heights.