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RUBBLE, for rubbish, vulgar and not used.
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. A mass or stratum of
fragments or rock lying under the alluvium, and derived from the
neighboring rock.
Lyell. 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. | ||||||||