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rabblen.1adj. Origin: Probably formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: rabble v.1 Etymology: Probably < rabble v.1 Compare raffle n.2, raff n.3, riff-raff n.1The semantic connection between the branches is perhaps via a general notion of confusion. A. n.1 I. A group or collection. 1. the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > absence of arrangement > [noun] > a disorderly collection society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > disorder or riot > [noun] > one who creates a disturbance or rioter > crowd of society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > the lowest class > [noun] > the rabble > a rabble the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > of people or animals > regarded as a whole or a body of people gathered > large or numerous > disorderly a1398 (?c1343) R. Rolle Ego Dormio (Rawl.) in C. Horstmann (1895) I. 53 Þai may see þaire sorowynge þare wa es alle þe rabel. c1450 tr. G. Boccaccio (1924) 1564 (MED) Thamyrys, herynge of the grete route and rable, Thought it was best to werke wysely. a1529 J. Skelton Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng in (?1545) 382 Now in cometh another rabell. Fyrst one with a ladell, [etc.]. a1568 R. Ascham (1570) i. f. 22 I sawe..cum out of London..a great rable of meane and light persons. 1595 W. S. v. iv. 17 The watrie ladies and the lightfoote fawnes, And all the rabble of the wooddie Nymphs. 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher v. iii. 70 Theres a trim rabble let in: are all these Your faithfull friends o' th' Suburbs? View more context for this quotation 1667 S. Pepys 27 May (1974) VIII. 239 At last the rabble broke up, and so I away. 1713 G. Berkeley in 25 Apr. 1/2 They seemed rather a confused Rabble than a regular Army. 1756 C. Lucas iii. 332 I narrowly escaped the insolence..of an inraged rabble. 1824 G. Soane v. iv. 90 Must I never stir without a rabble of you grinning at my heels? 1840 C. Thirlwall VII. 249 He was accompanied..by a mixed rabble of strangers and disfranchised citizens. 1858 J. A. Froude (ed. 2) III. xiv. 194 He went unwillingly, with followers little better than a rabble. 1951 S. H. Bell iii. i. 194 He would playfully..hook the ball off a boy's toe and dribble it skilfully up the road followed by a rabble of gleeful boys shouting ‘Hi, Mester! Here, Mester!’ 1975 J. L. Anderson iii. ii. 187 Talencam snickered, and suddenly the whole drag-peckered rabble was laughing. 2005 (Nexis) 3 Feb. 32 Going in at half-time the South Coast side looked a despondent rabble. society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > the lowest class > [noun] > the rabble > a rabble > member of > collectively a1516 H. Medwall i. sig. d.vii And I am sure cornelyus is able With his owne goodis to bye a rable Of such as gayus is. 1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes iii, in (1557) 228/1 That we should not haue such a rabell [of priests]. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane f. ccxlix Monkes and Freers and all that relygious rabbell. 1603 T. Dekker sig. D3 Hipocrates, Auicen, Paracelsus,..with all their succeeding rabble of Doctors and Water-casters. 1621 P. Heylyn 268 That rabble of kings mentioned by Hector Boetius. 1671 J. Webster ii. 29 The numerous, and almost innumerable rabble of the School-men. 1729 J. Swift 27 I'm grown a mere mopus; no company comes But a rabble of tenants and rusty dull rums. 1741 W. Warburton II. ii. iv Jupiter, Mercury, Bacchus, Venus, Mars, and the whole rabble of licentious deities. 1797 E. Burke 95 To class himself with, that rabble of murderers. 1847 Ld. Tennyson vi. 136 To mob me up with all The soft and milky rabble of womankind. 1922 E. Wharton xx. 233 The rabble of vulgar uneducated royalties who overran Europe from Biarritz to the Engadine, gambling, tangoing, and sponging on no less vulgar plebeians. 1987 S. Weintraub (1988) i. 12 Viscount Melbourne..blamed all discontent upon a rabble of agitators. 2001 18 June a14/3 He chose to announce this latest rationale for the EU as part of a general suck-up to an anti-American rabble. society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > the lowest class > [noun] > the rabble 1549 T. Chaloner tr. Erasmus sig. Pv (margin) The rable at Rome. 1553 J. Bale Vocacyon in (Malh.) I. 357 Than was all the rable of the shippe..called to the reckeninge. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe 215 b The meane and inferiour subjectes, even the rascall rable and multitude. 1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden i. 120 A few of the rabble of the people raising a tumult. 1676 A. Marvell sig. G2v None but the very rabble love to hear anything scurrilous or railing. 1691 T. Hale p. xlvi As to the Rabble of Readers..Water would have served their turns as well. 1711 J. Addison No. 18. ¶6 It is not the Taste of the Rabble, but of Persons of the greatest Politeness. 1790 E. Cotton Let. 12 Oct. in G. Steevens By letting for the whole season the 4 best boxes in the house to some of the rabble of Cambridge..gave so much offence. 1813 P. B. Shelley vii. 93 His name unheard, Save by the rabble of his native town. 1873 J. A. Symonds iii. 86 Theognis complains that the rabble rule the state with monstrous laws. 1885 July 398/2 The excitement of the rabble was increased whenever a strapping young woman entered the foot-race or engaged in a wrestling match. 1943 A. Rand ii. xii. 376 If our best people..refuse to recognize this, what can you expect from all sorts of parvenus, would-be architects and the rabble in general? 1970 C. Sandburg 16 As a fence, it is a masterpiece, and will shut off the rabble and all the vagabonds. 1992 Dec. 15/1 The British don't suffer from..‘the democratic vapors’, and they feel no compunction about ushering the gentry into the coach and packing the rabble off to debtor's prison. the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > [noun] society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > the lowest class > [noun] > persons of the lowest class (collectively) 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch 861 There was no armie onely but his, that was without players, minstrells, fooles and iugglers: for his campe only was cleane of such rabble and foolerie. 1632 J. Taylor sig. B7v I am not of that tame patience to forbeare them, who are known to be nothing but rumour and rabble. 1650 ‘I. S.’ Scoticlassicum 4 in D. Laing (1853) 2nd Ser. xxiv Goe with your renting rascall rable. a1684 J. Evelyn anno 1645 (1955) II. 382 The streetes swarming with whores, buffoones & all manner of rabble. 1707 tr. M. Alemán II. ii. ix. 89 That Street, and others thro' which I was to pass, were full of Rabble, all queeking and grunting. 1726 D. Defoe ii. v. 257 The Devil..makes use of Scoundrels and Rabble, Beggars and Vagabonds. 1734 T. Sheridan in (1768) IV. 67 You live in Dublin among a parcel of rabble. 1805 T. Lindley (1808) 40 The rear was brought up by..other troops, and an immense of rabble. 1856 H. B. Stowe II. xxxii. 321 There is always an abundance of excitable rabble to be got for a drink of whiskey. 1921 E. L. White iii. xxiv. 353 I judged that we should be safer by ourselves than with these fools and rabble. 1974 R. A. Caro iv. xi. 187 He feared the town would be ‘overrun with rabble from the city’. 2000 Jan. 35/1 Members of America's underclass are largely served by atrocious crap that defines them in their own eyes as well as everyone's else's as rabble. the world > animals > animals collectively > [noun] > herd or flock c1400 (?c1390) (1940) 1703 (MED) A kenet kryes þerof..His felaȝes..Runnen forth in a rabel, in his ryȝt fare. c1400 (?c1390) (1940) 1899 (MED) Renaud com richchande þurȝ a roȝe greue, & alle þe rabel..ryȝt at his helez. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil xi. ix. 29 The rawk vocit swannis in a rabyll. 1523 J. Skelton sig. E.iijv/2 He brought out a rabyll Of coursers and rounsis. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas i. v. 183 Flies, Butterflies, Gnats, Bees, and all the rables Of other Insects. 1634 T. Herbert 94 Wolues, Lions, Wild-cats, Bores, and Scorpions, amongst which rabble may be cataloguized, the swarmes of Gnats, Flies and Snakes. 1982 (Nexis) 12 Sept. x. 43/1 I say, fine rabble of butterflies today. 2005 14 Aug. (Factor X section) 7/5 Other groups include..a rabble of butterflies. 3. A disorderly or disorganized collection; a confused medley (of things). c1530 A. Barclay ii. sig. Iii The borde or table With dysshes charged, twenty in a rable. ?1555 in J. Foxe (1583) 1699/2 Builde they neuer so strongly: yet downe shall theyr rabble fall. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe 40 A wonderfull rabble of wormeeaten pictures. 1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan vi. 249 (margin) A rabble of sorcerous drugges. 1803 W. Taylor in 1 431 A rabble of books of all ages, sizes, [etc.]. 1883 XVI. 149/2 In the confused rabble of clouds which followed low thunder continued to roll. 1941 B. Miller ii. 34 Alec walked along, leaving behind him the heart of the town with its rabble of hotels and amusement-places. 1952 P. Pinney 69 You think I love that dirty rabble of tin-roofed shanties I was born in, way out in the Mallee? 1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus II. Rom. vi. f. xiiii All oure desyres of transitorye pleasures, whose whole rable maye well be called the body of synne. 1562 tr. J. Jewel (Parker Soc.) v. ix. 89 Pardons, crosses, censings, and an endless rabble of ceremonies. 1633 J. Hart Introd. 26 A rabble of remedies, which may so easily be abused. 1649 G. Wither 15 Whiles the whole Rabble of black Tempests sleep, Lull'd by the warbling Musick of the Deep. 1751 S. Richardson (ed. 3) VII. 267 Miss grew up under the influences of..books so light and frothy, with the inflaming additions of Music, Concerts, Opera's, Plays, Assemblies, Balls, and the rest of the rabble of amusements of the modern life. a1774 A. Tucker (1777) III. iii. 248 Reason..overpowered by the rabble of appetites, passions, and opinions. 1847 H. Rogers I. v. 259 A seditious rabble of doubts. 1861 R. W. Emerson Old Age in (1906) III. 134 We live in youth amidst the rabble of passions. 1998 (Nexis) 29 July a8 Historians agree that democracy is often clumsy, a rabble of opinions. 2004 3 Dec. (Friday Review section) 12/3 A thrashing, expeditious, deafening, disordered, frenzied, screeching rabble of a racket based around a crashing chorus, repetitive chants and booming bass. 1691 T. Heyrick 105 The ignoble lesser Fry, The Rabble of the watry Clime, Not worth a Fisher's Time. 1854 9 419/1 Rabble-fish..means the common, not valued, or properly rejected and thrown aside, and so are not carried to market... The rabble-fish..are perfectly wholesome, and are therefore the food of the fisherman and his family, but yet are not sufficiently esteemed to be sold in the market. 1880–4 F. Day II. 335 Things are altered now, much of this rabble-fish going to Billingsgate and other large inland markets. 1962 W. Granville 93/2 Rabble fish. Unmarketable or inedible fish, e.g., dog-fish, ray, etc. 1963 R. M. Nance & P. A. S. Pool 133 Rabble, unsaleable fish. II. Senses relating to speech. 5. the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [noun] > instance of c1400 J. Wyclif (1871) III. 466 (MED) Nouþer God ne alle his seintus willen heren men for no rabul of wordis. 1542 H. Brinkelow sig. Biv A rabble of dyrtye tradycyons. 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid xiv. 181 [He] rapped out by heapes A rabble of vnsauery taunts euen like a country cloyne, Too which, most leawd and filthy termes of purpose he did ioyne. 1589 G. Puttenham iii. xxiii. 221 Such a rable of scholastical precepts which be tedious. 1639 R. Baillie (1775) I. 172 But over sea, as we heard, in divers languages, heaping up a rabble of the falsest calumnies that ever was put into any one discourse that I had read. 1641 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. F. Biondi I. v. 170 Hee told them a long rabble of reasons, why hee had sate downe in that place. 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini i. vi. 14 So horribly teadious did that rabble of discourse appear. 1693 T. Rymer sig. H2 Humanity cannot bear that an old Gentleman in his misfortune should be insulted over with such a rabble of Skoundrel language, when no cause or provocation. 1808 J. Jamieson at Rabble A rhapsody, idle incoherent discourse; as a mere rabble of nonsense. 1841 T. Moore Alarming Intelligence in IX. 48 There school'd, with a rabble of words at command. 1904 Dec. 807/2 It is impossible to explain their construction of a technical vocabulary out of a rabble of words recruited from the uttermost regions. 2000 3 Nov. (Pasatiempo Suppl.) 32/2 The press—depicted in a rabble of words. the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [noun] ?1593 H. Chettle sig. C4 When I had read this rabble, wherein I found little reason, I laide it by. 1649 Bp. J. Hall 28 This would amount to a long rabble, and degenerate into some Satyre or Pasquill. 1693 T. Rymer sig. H7v Now follows a long rabble of Jack-pudden farce betwixt Iago and Desdemona. a1794 S. Blamire Cumberland Scold in R. Anderson (1815) 192 Gin I put te into prent, The fwok wad caw't a reyble. 1876 C. C. Robinson (at cited word) He made sike a rabble on it, I couldn't understand a word he said. the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [noun] > hurried or confused speech 1868 R. Browning II. iv. 2 To hear the rabble and brabble, you'd call the case Fused and confused past human finding out. 1928 A. D. Mackie 45 What storms or gods..May whummle a' oor bonny Babel And lea' it tae the wild beasts' raibble. 1988 (Nexis) 12 Dec. d1 Kimberley..says that most people talk to themselves non-stop. Such mental rabble bungles the ability to make calm judgments and accomplish tasks. B. adj. ( attributive). 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne ii. xii. 327 In the rabble case-canvasing of our plea-courts. 1692 J. Dryden Pref. sig. A4 To gratifie the barbarous Party of my Audience, I gave them a short Rabble-Scene. a1734 R. North (1740) 306 How could any one of English Education..swallow such a low Rabble Suggestion. 1780 S. Johnson 10 June (1992) III. 271 To burn the Jayls..was a good rabble trick. 1848 A. Jameson in Mrs. Macpherson (1878) 248 There are some disturbances here..mere rabble-work. 1986 37 352 Bolingbroke is a Shaftesburian villain-statesman, seen manipulating the mob in a rabble scene. society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > the lowest class > [adjective] > belonging to the rabble 1549 H. Latimer 3rd Serm. sig. Hiiiv You my rable people that are wronged in the world, aske of my father in your distresses.] a1633 Visct. Falkland (1680) 39 A rabble multitude of despised Blue-caps, encounter, rout, and break the Flower of England. 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini i. lxxix. 166 To procure them that number of followers of the rabble sort of people. 1681 J. Oldham 9 Let rabble Souls..Stoop their vile Necks. 1778 7 Silent, and watchful of the rabble-band. 1831 23 Dec. 4/5 This old war-cry of the Newark blues, or rather the rabble part of them. 1869 8 Oct. 11 With all the rabble doggery of the country after him. 1885 C. Lowe I. 548 His only resource left was..to concentrate his rabble army around..Sedan. 1912 28 Feb. 7/6 Some women..have soiled the fame of their sex by the tactics not of Billingsgate so much as of the rabble-proletariate. 2004 (Nexis) 7 July 4 They moved before dawn, a rabble army clad in black whose mission was destruction and disruption. Compounds1694 R. South II. 455 With this powerfull, senseless Engine the Rabble-driver, shall be able to carry all before him. a1716 R. South (1717) VI. 63 These Rabble-Charming Words, which carry so much Wild-fire wrapt up in them. 1839 10 Apr. 5/4 Wounded the pride of this rabble-courting despot. 1853 T. N. Talfourd ii. iii A council rabble~chosen. 1993 (Nexis) 19 Apr. 47 Howard Marmon had never cared for the rabble-courting 8s, withdrawing from most of the company's activities in 1926 to begin an image-building V16. 1998 (Nexis) 27 Nov. 6 The rabble-related rapes that took place in Indonesia..are hideous examples of the extremes of mob culture. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). rabblen.2 Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French râble. Etymology: < French râble implement used to rake embers, etc. (second half of the 13th cent. in Old French as rouable ; slightly earlier as roaule in sense ‘rake without teeth (used to clear ditches)’ (1246)) < post-classical Latin rotabulum (13th cent.; 16th cent. in a British glossarial source), classical Latin rutābulum fire-shovel < an unattested frequentative formation < ruere rue v.2 + -bulum, instrumental suffix. society > occupation and work > equipment > digging or lifting tools > [noun] > shovel > other shovels 1664 J. Evelyn xxx. 102 Two or three days it will only require for cooling, which..they assist, by taking now off the outward covering with a Rabil or Rubber. 1841 C. H. Hartshorne 540 Rabble, a rake with very long teeth, used by wood colliers in separating charcoal from the dust. society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > stirring or puddling equipment 1778 W. Pryce 274 The slag is skimmed or drawn off through the hole of the furnace..by an Iron rake called a Rabble. 1849 L. Herbert (new ed.) I. 770 He drags, by means of an iron rabble passed through a hole in the door, the whole of the metal from the sides, into the basin. 1868 F. H. Joynson 67 The steam tube, or ‘rabble’, being bent on the end, so as to inject the steam on the liquid metal. 1881 W. W. Greener 221 The scraps were then cut into pieces of the same size, and placed in a furnace until of a white heat, gathered into a bloom with ravels, and the mass placed under a tilt hammer. 1905 E. A. U. Valentine 5 Rabbles, tapping bars, fosses and other furnace tools lay about or were cooling in the troughs of running water. 1962 62 153/2 The wooden-shafted iron hook or rabble, used for hauling red-hot metal out of the hearth. 1984 C. Smith iii. 54/1 In the late 18th century..Henry Cort developed the coke-fired puddling furnace in which a molten pool of pig iron could be mechanically stirred with long iron paddles called ‘rabbles’ which were inserted through ports in the furnace wall. Compounds society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > stirring or puddling equipment 1895 E. D. Peters (ed. 7) viii. 210 Pearce pursues this plan..in his turret-furnace, much of the air entering the hearth being preheated by its passage through the rabble-arms. 1930 25 Apr. 19/1 The top dry hearth is provided with rabble arms revolving with the shaft, which are adjusted so as to pass the ore across the top dry hearth. 1998 (Electronic ed.) A slowly rotating central shaft turns rabble arms on each hearth both to stir the roasting material and to push it into drop holes leading to the hearth below. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). rabblev.1Origin: Apparently a word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Apparently cognate with or formed similarly to Middle Dutch rabbelen to speak indistinctly (Dutch rabbelen (regional (south)) to speak hurriedly or indistinctly, (regional (Flemish)) to talk about trifles), German regional (Low German: Lüneburg) rabbeln to speak hurriedly and thoughtlessly, Swedish rabbla to babble, talk indistinctly or monotonously (18th cent.), Danish rable (compare early modern Danish roble to work carelessly), ultimately of imitative origin; compare -le suffix 3. Compare Old Icelandic rabba to babble, Norwegian (Nynorsk) rabba to babble, talk nonsense. Compare also the apparently unrelated classical Latin rabula ranting speaker (see rabulous adj.). Compare earlier babble v.1 and also brabble v. Compare also rabble n.1 Chiefly Scottish. Now rare. 1. the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > talk gibberish [verb (intransitive)] a1400 (?1348) R. Rolle Form of Living (Harl. 1022) in C. Horstmann (1895) I. 24 [a1450 Cambr. To gyf noght entent till his prayers] Bot rebell & rekkes neuer how þei be sayde. 1425 (a1400) (Lansd.) (1933) 95 Oþir mani sinnis þer be of missioun, þat is, of leuinge gode dedis vndoun..nouȝt gyfand tent to oure prayeris but rabiland [v.rr. rabland, rabeland, raboland, rabylynge, rabelyng, rabolyng, rebelland, reboland, robeland, roboland; c1450 Harl. rablynge] on [v.rr. of, vn to] þayme. c1850 R. Peattie ‘Try an' mind if there's onything else, John, as lang's ye're sensible.’ ‘I'm awin' Tam Johnson £10 for a coo.’ ‘Oo! never heed that Sir,—he's raiblin noo.’ 1852 W. G. Simms xvii. 215 Mrs. Foster was accustomed to rabble on in this manner. But there was a great deal that was artful in her speech. 1876 C. C. Robinson 108/1 Rabble,..to gabble in reading. 1928 A. E. Pease 100/1 She raabled on aboot summat, but Ah's seear naebody was the wiser. 1999 (Nexis) 27 Oct. Shit. I've rabbled on again and don't even know how you are. the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > say in a particular manner [verb (transitive)] > say hastily or confusedly the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > express unintelligibly [verb (transitive)] c1430 N. Love (Brasenose e.9) (1908) 113 (MED) In the seienge of the Pater noster thei..rablene it forth with oute deuocioun. a1500 in (1933) 164 180 (MED) Rable not wordes recheles owt of resoune. 1530 (Fawkes) (1873) i. 53 Ye oughte..not rable them [sc. words] out togyther as though ye wolde say them all at ones. a1555 J. Bradford Let. in J. Foxe (1583) II. 1663/2 Thus father Traues you may see my rashnes to rable out the scriptures without purpose, ryme, or reason. 1627 J. Carter 60 The Lords prayer is rabled ouer without..vnderstanding or reuerence. 1654 E. Burrough (1672) 13 To be exercised in the formal worship which was then upheld, to read and sing, and to rabble over a Prayer. 1771 T. Bridges III. xviii. 172 To repeat a conversation, and do justice to this charming couple, requires a cool moment or two, for it ought not to be rabbled over like Mr——'s tales of cocks and bulls. 1786 R. Burns Holy Fair xvii, in 48 Wee ****** niest, the Guard relieves, An' Orthodoxy raibles. 1872 E. B. Ramsay 34 He ribbled aff the prayers like a man at the heid o' a regiment. 1890 J. Service 7 No' to raible ony mair nonsense. 1908 J. Lumsden 26 The puir thing's vera gyte, an' raibles rhymes. 2. 1862 Mrs. H. Wood I. i. 9 There lay a clean, but tumbled surplice, half soaked in ink... ‘Who has done this?’ ‘It looks as though it had been rabbled up for the purpose’, cried Hurst in his schoolboy phraseology. 1932 A. Horsbøl tr. J. Jakobsen II. 675/2 To rabl op a wa' or dyke, to build up a wall or fence hastily and carelessly. 1866 W. Gregor (Philol. Soc.) 137 She rabblet an' shewed the bit jacketie in o' ither. 1869 J. C. Atkinson Rabble,..in sewing, to take too long stitches, and without due care to finish the work neatly. 1880 (new ed.) Rabble,..to do any kind of work in a careless and hurried manner. 1932 A. Horsbøl tr. J. Jakobsen II. 675/2 Rabl,..to spin or knit badly and unevenly. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022). rabblev.2Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: rabble n.1 Etymology: < rabble n.1 Compare earlier rabbler n.1, rabbling adj. the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)] > in a riot society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Presbyterianism > [verb (transitive)] > rabble 1661 J. Howell 132 The same kind of riotous Rascals, which rabbled the K. out of Town. 1690 26 Some who were then very active in rabbling the Clergy. 1694 E. Gibson Let. 13 June in H. Ellis (1843) 227 He fail'd not to cast in his mite when the Episcopal Clergie were rabbl'd. c1714 (1815) 336 The magistrates thought fitt to stirre up a mob and rable them. 1744 J. Willison 40 The Jacobites turned so uppish, that they encouraged Episcopal Ministers to intrude into vacant Churches, and Ministers and Preachers who were sent to preach in them were rabbled. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian vii, in 2nd Ser. I. 193 The aughty-nine, when I was rabbled by the collegeaners. 1860 A. L. Windsor iv. 199 He was continually receiving missives threatening to rabble his house. 1893 P. H. Waddell 147 He was not ‘ejected’, as many ministers were at that time, or ‘rabbled’ out of his parish, as many were in the west of Scotland. 1903 F. W. Maitland in II. 559 Under the eyes of the Regent the priests were rabbled and the idol [of St Giles] was smashed in pieces. 1931 J. Lorimer xxviii Rabble the randy! Ay, that's it. Rabble her, afore Middleton comes wi' his sodgers. 1983 34 569 The people ‘rabbled’ the new minister. 2001 (Nexis) 8 Nov. 30 If the federal government doesn't hand this airline to the boys in the next two days—for a handshake and the prospect of not getting rabbled in the press—Kim will. society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > disorder or riot > riot [verb (intransitive)] 1813 R. Wilson II. 448 We rabbled, while he [sc. the enemy] never loosened his solidity. a1861 T. Winthrop (1883) ix. 76 He dismissed his audience with an..injunction to keep closer to the train..and not be ‘rabbling off to catch grasshoppers’. 1970 O. Chadwick II. vi. 355 The agitators began to disturb and rabble at services. 1990 (Nexis) 12 Sept. They all rabbled off to the wrong plane. Derivatives 1714 J. Gillan 13 We have the Copy of a Petition to the Parliament from the Rabbled Ministers. 1855 T. B. Macaulay IV. xviii. 186 William..thought that the rabbled curates had been hardly treated. 1957 13 86 The ‘rabbled’ Scottish episcopalians. 2002 (Nexis) 20 Dec. 6 d It's all played out against an incredibly detailed physical re-creation of New York..populated by a cast of rabbled thousands. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). rabblev.3 Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: rabble n.2 Etymology: < rabble n.2 Compare French râbler (1784). Chiefly Founding. society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > heat > melt > stir molten metal 1823 New Ser. 5 117 When the ore is melted, the door of the furnace is taken down, and the liquid mass well rabbled, or stirred. 1877 R. W. Raymond 392 Just before tapping it is rabbled for five minutes. 1894 Jan. 420 The molten metal is thoroughly stirred, or ‘rabbled’ to make it uniform. 1923 Nov. 291/2 The other furnace..in which the flames actually play over the surface of the mundic which is ‘ravelled’ from the side by a pole some eight or nine feet long. 1938 R. Hum xxii. 578 The furnaces used for roasting usually consist of a number of hearths, one above the other, on which the ore can be rabbled (i.e. raked) either by hand or mechanically. 1981 6 206 The concentrate was rabbled frequently to ensure adequate contact with the air. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.1adj.a1398 n.21664v.1a1400 v.21661 v.31823 |
