Rubble

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

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

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

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

IV. Rubble ·noun 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.

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