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ˈrubble-stone
Also ruble, rubble stone, rubblestone.
[f. rubble n.]
1. = rubble n. 2 and 3.
1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) I. 71 In Oxfordshire, where they have a lean Earth and a small rubble Stone, or a sowre sort of Land mixed with it. 1787G. White Selborne i, What is called a white malm, a sort of rotten or rubble stone, which, when turned up to the frost and rain, moulders to pieces. 1817Keatinge Trav. I. 208 The whole country is covered..with rubble-stone—strongly hinting at a Neptunian process. 1833Loudon Encycl. Archit. 545 The walls may be of rubblestone, bricks, or clay lumps. 1888Rider Haggard Col. Quaritch xli, A..vault..built of rubble stone.
attrib.1853R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour xxix. 178 An armless sign-post on one side, and a rubble-stone bridge..on the other.
2. pl. Stones of the nature of rubble.
a1728Woodward Fossils i. 13 Neither the Bowlders, nor Rubble-Stones, are ever invested with an exterior stony Crust or Skin. 1789J. Williams Min. Kingd. II. 7 Whinstone..is frequently too hard and strong to be commonly quarried for ruble-stones. 1822Scott Let. in Lockhart (1839) VII. 38 The ruble stones would do much more than pay the labourers. 1849James Woodman xxxv, [He] had to traverse a considerable number of round rubble stones. |