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rubbles

rubbles is the plural of rubble.

rubbles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of rubble.

Meaning of rubble

Noun

rubble (countable and uncountable, plural rubbles)

  1. The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.
    • 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.1956 October, “Summer Floods in Scotland”, in Railway Magazine, page 658
  2. A mass or stratum of fragments of rock lying under the alluvium and derived from the neighbouring rock.
    • The overlying beds are composed of such calcareous rubble and flints, rudely stratified1855, Sir Charles Lyell, A Manual of Elementary Geology
  3. (UK, dialectal, in plural) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.

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Questions about rubbles

What is rubbles the plural of?
Rubbles is the plural of rubble.

Words near rubbles in the dictionary

  1. rubble drain
  2. rubble drains
  3. rubble pile
  4. rubble piles
  5. rubbled
  6. rubbles
  7. rubblestone
  8. rubblework
  9. rubblier
  10. rubbliest
  11. rubbling

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