Thesaurus: rubble
Water-worn or rough broken stones; broken bricks, etc., used in coarse masonry, or to fill up between the facing courses of walls.
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- 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.
- n. the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
- A mass or stratum of fragments or rock lying under thealluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock. Lyell.
- n:100 n the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up