rubble

Signification (Anglais)

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

Concepts

décombres

débris

déblai

débri

abattis

ordures

moellon

plâtras

pierres concassées

poussière

rhum

blocaille

déblais

gravats

Synonymes

debris

gravel

ruins

remains

broken stone

grit

detritus

wreckage

junk

dust

spoil

pebble

rubbish

precipice

quarrystone

road metal

ruin

slack

trash

wreck

rubble stone

waste

broken brick

rough ashlar

waste rock

crushed brick

abyss

small chips

bat

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boulder

cobble

cobblestone

collapse

crash

fieldstone

float

fragments

leavings

muck

paving stone

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈɹʌb.əl/

Étymologie (Anglais)

From Middle English rouble, rubel, robel, robeil, from Anglo-Norman *robel (“bits of broken stone”). Presumably related to rubbish, originally of same meaning (waste material, bits of stone, rubble). Ultimately presumably from Old Norse rubba (“to huddle, crowd together, heap up", possibly also "to rub, scrape”), from Proto-Germanic *rubbōną (“to rub, scrape”), related to Proto-Germanic *reufaną (“to tear”), *raubōną (“to rob, steal, plunder”), perhaps via Old French robe (English rob (“steal”)) in sense of “plunder, destroy”; see also Middle English, Middle French -el.

Phrases

The walls are of rubble , which includes some Roman tile , with ashlar dressings .

Les murs sont des décombres , qui comprennent des carreaux romains, avec des vinaigrettes en radar.