Definition of Rubble

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Rubble

Water-worn or rough broken stones; broken bricks, etc., used in coarse masonry, or to fill up between the facing courses of walls.

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.

A mass or stratum of fragments or rock lying under the alluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock.

The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.

Related Definitions:

Alluvium, Also, And, As, Before, Between, Bran, Brash, Broken, Coarse, Comes, Decomposed, Derived, Facing, Fill, For, Fragmentary, From, In, Into, Is, It, Lying, Masonry, Mass, Neighboring, Of, Or, Pollard, Portion, Quarry, Rock, Rough, Sorted, Stone, Stratum, Term, The, To, Under, Up, Upper, Used, Wheat, Whole

Rubble Quotations

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
Winston Churchill

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.
Prince Charles

I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain that were in the rubble and tried to make some mosaic out of the pieces and that that would be the trajectory.
Art Spiegelman

Bin Laden, who was in his country, attacked and damaged our Pentagon, and killed our soldiers right out here at the Pentagon. But his pentagon no longer exists. It is rubble.
Jeff Sessions

Rubble Translations

rubble in Dutch is rommel, puin, afval, prullaria
rubble in French is ordures, brocaille, moellon
rubble in German is Bruchstein
rubble in Norwegian is steinsprut
rubble in Spanish is cascote

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