单词 | rubble pile |
释义 | > as lemmasrubble pile a. (Chiefly in sense 5a.) With the senses ‘of the nature of rubble’, ‘consisting of rubble’, as rubble bed, rubble chalk, rubble granite, rubble pile, rubble rock, etc. See also rubble stone n. ΚΠ 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 302 An house of the Kings in the West part of the towne neere unto Haling, where the husband men dig up otherwhiles rubble stone. 1712 Philos. Trans. 1710–12 (Royal Soc.) 27 542 A dark, gray, hard Iron Oar, called the Rubble Iron-Stone. a1773 J. Hutchins Hist. Dorset (1774) I. 176/1 The castle stands a little N. of the town, opposite to the church, on a very steep rocky hill, mingled with hard rubble chalk-stone. 1799 R. Kirwan Geol. Ess. 184 Rubble slate, or coticular slate, or indurated clay. 1844 A. W. Pugin in E. S. Purcell Life & Lett. A. P. de Lisle (1900) I. iv. 82 From the nature of the material used—a sort of rubble granite. 1886 S. Baring-Gould Germany xxxiii. 196 Above Mannheim the river is too rapid and too full of shifting rubble-beds to be safely navigated. 1920 A. W. Grabau Gen. Geol. xviii. 569 The rubble-rock or rubble-stone, or rudyte, which when the fragments are rounded is a conglomerate and when angular a breccia. 1952 Q. Film, Radio & Television 7 68 That picture played in the great rubble pile of Berlin. 1992 Garden Hist. 20 151/2 Rubble chalk was found under the garden path. 2007 Victorian Nov. 20/3 The building is in a Gothic Revival style, in coursed and squared rubble limestone with ashlar dressings. < as lemmas |
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