RUBBLED
Etymology
Adjective
rubbled (not comparable)
Reduced to rubble.
Anagrams
• blurbed, burbled
Source: Wiktionary
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.)
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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