RUBBLE

debris, dust, junk, rubble, detritus

(noun) the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

rubble (countable and uncountable, plural rubbles)

The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.

(geology) A mass or stratum of fragments of rock lying under the alluvium and derived from the neighbouring rock.

(UK, dialect, in the plural) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.

Anagrams

• beblur, burble, lubber, rebulb

Source: Wiktionary

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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.)

Definition: A mass or stratum of fragments or rock lying under the alluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock. Lyell.

4. pl.

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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