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Rubble , n. [From an assumed Old French dim. of robe See Rubbish.]
- Water-worn or rough broken stones; broken bricks, etc., used in coarse masonry, or to fill up between the facing courses of walls.1913 Webster
Inside [the wall] there was rubble or mortar.
Jowett (Thucyd.).1913 Webster - 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.1913 Webster
- (Geol.) A mass or stratum of fragments or rock lying under the alluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock.Lyell.1913 Webster
- pl. The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc. [Prov. Eng.]Simmonds.1913 Webster
Coursed rubble, rubble masonry in which courses are formed by leveling off the work at certain heights.
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- Water-worn or rough broken stones; broken bricks, etc., used in coarse masonry, or to fill up between the facing courses of walls.