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Coursed rubble

Rubble \Rub"ble\, n. [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.) A mass or stratum of fragments or rock lying under the alluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock.
    --Lyell.

  4. 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.