The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rubble \Rub"ble\, n. [From an assumed Old French dim. of robe See Rubbish.]
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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.
Inside [the wall] there was rubble or mortar.
--Jowett (Thucyd.). 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.(Geol.) A mass or stratum of fragments or rock lying under the alluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock.
--Lyell.-
pl. 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.