(n.) An iron bar, with the end bent, used in stirring or skimming molten iron in the process of puddling.
(v. t.) To stir or skim with a rabble, as molten iron.
(v. i.) To speak in a confused manner.
(v. i.) A tumultuous crowd of vulgar, noisy people; a mob; a confused, disorderly throng.
(v. i.) A confused, incoherent discourse; a medley of voices; a chatter.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a rabble; like, or suited to, a rabble; disorderly; vulgar.
(v. t.) To insult, or assault, by a mob; to mob; as, to rabble a curate.
(v. t.) To utter glibly and incoherently; to mouth without intelligence.
(v. t.) To rumple; to crumple.
Example Sentences:
(1) So, at the end of her life, Williams, with other Hillsborough families, was recognised not as part of some Liverpool rabble but as a shining example: an everyday person embodying the extraordinary power and depth of human love.
(2) On the other, well, just look at the bigoted rabble.
(3) No one else need bother to paint them as a ramshackle and rancorous rabble marooned in the past and without a plausible account of the future.
(4) Corbyn's Momentum group moves to block influence of hard-left parties Read more Tom Watson, the Labour deputy leader, calls the group “a bit of a rabble”.
(5) At least if he had to join the Army, he decided, he would apply for the Royal Army Medical Corps, but his diminutive stature (he was just over five feet tall) disqualified him from anything but the Bantam units, "a horrible rabble - Falstaff's scarecrows were nothing to these", he wrote.
(6) As an electoral reform campaigner, I'd been invited to speak at a big fringe meeting, and I'd prepared a tub-thumping rabble-rousing speech, guaranteed to instil in the faintest of hearts the passion I felt about the injustices of the current electoral system.
(7) As much as it pains me to point out the blindingly obvious, Sunderland are some rabble.
(8) They were a rabble and, at this level, a team cannot expect to get away with these kind of collective failures.
(9) Hungarians fought for freedom in 1956, not Orban’s rabble-rousers | George Szirtes Read more Access to transit zones set up at the border with Serbia has already been severely restricted, human rights groups claim.
(10) That is more than West Ham dare hope for, since for a Sam Allardyce side the visitors were pallid here, almost as much of a pushover as the Blackburn rabble that went down 7-1 three years ago at Old Trafford in a result that altered the course of events at Ewood and ultimately Upton Park.
(11) | Oliver Burkeman Read more The real-estate mogul turned entertainer turned political rabble-rouser-in-chief tweeted a photo of himself on Tuesday – #MakeAmericaGreatAgain – which, upon closer inspection, revealed something shocking to his 3.2 million followers.
(12) According to the police report, "a man claiming to be the chief whip" – pause for mocking laughter from the rabble (sorry, from Labour MPs) – "called the police 'plebs', told them they should know their place, and used other abusive language.
(13) Her criticism of Momentum is the most forthright of any MP for some time, after Tom Blenkinsop called for the group to be banned and Tom Watson dismissed it as a “bit of a rabble” .
(14) This time, Republican primary evangelicals and general election evangelicals want a candidate who not just talks a good game, but who has actual accomplishments in the areas that they care most about.” Courting ‘the lifeline of the Republican Party’ In his two-plus years in the Senate, Cruz has made a name for himself as a rabble-rouser who often butts heads with party leadership.
(15) And there will still be a mixture of homegrown material and features glommed from Wired's American edition, alongside an eclectic slate of contributors that includes the distinguished (Oxford neuroscientist Susan Greenfield) and the rabble-rousing (Warren Ellis, the expletive-addicted comic book writer).
(16) While the iPhone remains the acknowledged market leader in the mobile world – more profitable and trend-setting than anything else in the mobile phone market for years – a rabble of challengers is closing in fast.
(17) They’re a rabble with various causes, mostly anti-establishment and anti-gentrification.
(18) If James hadn’t put her name forward at the last minute, we would have had nothing but a rabble of no-name, no-talent nobodies to choose from.
(19) That said, it contains all the elements required to stir the loins: a glorious and triumphant opening string and brass salvo, followed by a regal and stately middle section (to the manor born), building to a rabble rousing climax.
(20) Even the reliably rabble-rousing Bob Crow, of the RMT, is emphasising Fathers4Justice-style publicity stunts over a general strike.
Rubble
Definition:
(n.) Water-worn or rough broken stones; broken bricks, etc., used in coarse masonry, or to fill up between the facing courses of walls.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A mass or stratum of fragments or rock lying under the alluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock.
(n.) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Who shot you in the back as you drove on your motorbike to dig your children out of the rubble?
(2) Such extravagant claims will be familiar to the scheme's architect, Richard Rogers, whose designs for the office development beside St Paul's Cathedral in the 1980s were torpedoed when Charles implied in a public speech that the plans were more offensive than the rubble left by the Luftwaffe during the blitz.
(3) The authorities had vacated the area, leaving barricades and piles of rubble in place.
(4) "Some people pulled me out from the rubble," said shopkeeper Sharifuddin Aurfan, who was wounded.
(5) Probably the starkest document yet to emerge from Labour’s election rubble, it underlines how hard it will be for Corbyn to send out a cohesive message when MPs, including those in his administration, are fundamentally opposed to his ideology .
(6) It takes time for Dhaka's ramshackle emergency services to arrive, so hundreds of locals clamber over and through the rubble, tearing at the concrete blocks and mangled metal with their hands.
(7) The turnstiles had been abandoned and you didn't even need a ticket, and there was rubble lying around everywhere.
(8) Supporters see him as saving South Korea from poverty and irrelevance by building up the economy from the rubble of the Korean war.
(9) Much of Libya and Yemen is reduced to rubble in a war where outside powers are the principal actors, prepared to fight until the last local is dead.
(10) When it knocked down our buildings, it didn't replace them with anything more offensive than rubble."
(11) A day earlier, the child's mother, Lauranie Jean, was pulled from the rubble of the house.
(12) People are literally sleeping amongst the rubble, children have died of hypothermia,” said the agency’s director in Gaza, Robert Turner.
(13) Restaurant Bar de la Marine (28 rue Achard) is a little oasis of comfort amid the rubble of the past and the concrete of the future.
(14) As they continued to trawl through water and rubble for the missing, on Monday police said they had reduced the number of people believed to have died in the Utøya massacre from 86 to 68 – the vast majority of them teenagers taking part in a leftwing political summer camp.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Syrian child pulled from rubble after Aleppo airstrike The fight for control of Aleppo has intensified in recent weeks following gains made by rebel groups battling the forces of the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad.
(16) Pictures showed a large group of people lying on polished tiled flooring, most of them near to a wall and surrounded by rubble and other debris.
(17) The foreign affairs minister, Julie Bishop, said on Sunday: “While there are reports of extensive loss of life, at this point there are no reports of Australian deaths.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Emergency workers in Kathmandu continue to pull survivors from the rubble a day after the earthquake Twitter and Facebook pages are showing images of Australians in Nepal and many families have reported dozens of loved ones missing on the Red Cross’s Family Links website.
(18) Elsewhere in the shattered capital, an Israeli rescue team freed a 22-year-old man from the rubble.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Rescuers search for five children trapped under rubble.
(20) "There are people still alive underneath [rubble], you can hear them crying for help, but time is running out.