Word Meanings - RUBBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A mass or stratum of fragments or rock lying under the alluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock. Lyell. 4. pl. (more info) 1. Water-worn or rough broken stones; broken bricks, etc., used in coarse masonry, or to fill up between the facing

Additional info about word: RUBBLE

A mass or stratum of fragments or rock lying under the alluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock. Lyell. 4. pl. (more info) 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 there was rubble or mortar. Jowett . 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.

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• FACETIAE
  Witty or humorous writings or saying; witticisms; merry conceits.
• UNDERBRED
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• FACIES
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• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• UNDERPLOT
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• FACILITATION
  The act of facilitating or making easy.
• ROUGHT
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• ROUGHHEWN
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  In a familiar manner.
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