Rubble

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A loose mass of angular fragments of rock or masonry crumbled by natural or human forces.
  • n. Irregular fragments or pieces of rock used in masonry.
  • n. The masonry made with such rocks.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Water-worn or rough broken stones; broken bricks, etc., used in coarse masonry, or to fill up between the facing courses of walls.
  • n. 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.
  • n. A mass or stratum of fragments or rock lying under the alluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock.
  • n. The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Rough stones of irregular shapes and sizes, broken from larger masses either naturally or artificially, as by geological action, in quarrying, or in stone-cutting or blasting.
  • n. Masonry of rubble; rubble-work.
  • n. By extension, any solid substance in irregularly broken pieces.
  • n. The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc. [Prov. Eng.]
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    rubbish    trash    scrap   
    Cross Reference
    Hyponym
    slack   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    brash   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Hubble    bubble    double    redouble    stubble    trouble   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    débris    gravel    boulder    wreckage    rubbish    masonry    cinder    dirt    slag    shard