Rubble

Definitions

1. The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.
   countable, uncountable
2. A mass or stratum of fragments of rock lying under the alluvium and derived from the neighbouring rock.
   countable, uncountable
3. The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.
   UK, countable, dialectal, in-plural, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The main East Coast line from Edinburgh to Berwick was blocked at Cockburnspath and Grantshouse by flood⟳ water, which washed away part of an embankment, and by the collapse of about 300 tons of rubble on to the track.”

“The old boulevard now was a sagging ruin, waiting for the wreckers. … You'd have⟳ to loathe yourself vividly to be indifferent to such destruction or, worse, rejoice at the crushing of the locus of these middle-class settlements, glad that history had made rubble of them.”

“Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have⟳ wrought disaster on an enormous scale.[…]Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.”

“The overlying beds are composed of such calcareous rubble and flints, rudely stratified”

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