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单词 rubble stone
释义

rubble stonen.

Brit. /ˈrʌbl stəʊn/, U.S. /ˈrəb(ə)l ˌstoʊn/
Forms: see rubble n. and stone n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rubble n., stone n.
Etymology: < rubble n. + stone n.
1. Irregular stones or pieces of rock, esp. as used for building walls. Also: a type of this.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > building stone > small or undressed stones for filling in
pinning1534
rubble1542
rubble work1675
rubble stone1833
hearting1837
spalled rubble1839
hardcore1842
scruff-stone1869
moellon1875
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 302 There stood an house of the Kings in the West part of the towne neere unto Haling, where the husband men dig up otherwhiles rubble stone.
1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 242 Another sort of Land they call Stone-brash, consisting of a light lean Earth and a small Rubble-stone.
1751 Gen. Advertiser 10 Jan. (advt.) They intend to sell to the best Bidder, a Quantity of Rubble Stone, now lying near the Bridge.
1789 G. White Nat. Hist. Selborne 4 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.
1817 M. Keating Trav. I. 208 The whole country is covered..with rubble-stone—strongly hinting at a Neptunian process.
1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. 545 The walls may be of rubblestone, bricks, or clay lumps.
1888 H. R. Haggard Col. Quaritch xli A..vault..built of rubble stone.
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.
1977 Pop. Sci. Apr. 146/2 Rubble stone can often be picked up from your own property or a nearby rural area for little or no charge.
2007 Victorian Nov. 7/2 Dawber assembled some of the best talent available to decorate his diminutive Arts and Crafts essay in rubble stone and red brick.
2. In plural. Stones of the nature of rubble.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > stony material > [noun] > rubble
rubble stones1677
rubble1796
1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire v. 102 Others [have thought] that they [sc. the Cockle-stones of Glympton] are formed by a peculiar virtue of the water, as it runs over the rubble stones that lye near its [sc. the spring's] exit.
1728 J. Woodward Fossils All Kinds i. 13 Neither the Bowlders, nor Rubble-Stones, are ever invested with an exterior stony Crust or Skin.
1789 J. Williams Nat. Hist. Mineral Kingdom II. 7 Whinstone..is frequently too hard and strong to be commonly quarried for ruble-stones.
1822 W. Scott Let. 15 May (1934) VII. 162 The ruble stones would do much more than pay the labourers.
1849 G. P. R. James Woodman III. iii. 47 [He] had to traverse a considerable number of round rubble stones.
1917 Archit. Rec. 41 96/1 The walls are very thick and composed of a mixture of rubble stones, cement and brick.
1972 Gettysburg (Pa.) Times 1 Nov. 3/6 The west wall of the tower was found to be made of soft filler brick and was resting on rubble stones instead of a foundation and footers.
2003 D. Dernie New Stone Archit. 9 A perimeter wall of coursed rubble stones, which surrounds the whole complex.

Compounds

General attributive, chiefly with the sense ‘made of or consisting of rubble stone’.
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1714 Answers Several Persons concerned in Rep. Commissioners sent into Spain 166 The Rubble Stone Work done usually in England containing 318 Cube Feet, answerable to a Rod of Brick-work 14 inches thick, [etc.].
1804 Rep. Commissioners Execution Inland Navigation 7 in 29th Rep. Commissioners Acct. Ireland A Rubble-Stone Quarry has been opened near Clachnacarry.
1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour vi. xxix. 178 An armless sign-post on one side, and a rubble-stone bridge..on the other.
1885 L. F. Vernon-Harcourt Harbours & Docks I. v. 96 The first class comprises a rubble stone mound, [etc.].
1909 Jrnl. N.Y. Bot. Garden Jan. 1 The structure..has..a rubble-stone base averaging about two feet in height.
1943 Cincinnati: Guide to Queen City & Neighbors iv. i. 491 A lake, formed by a rubblestone dam, provides 40 acres for boating and fishing.
1990 C. Laird Forgotten Son (1992) xi. 119 As soon as the priest began tolling the bell in its squat rubblestone tower, a group began to cluster and swell around the entrance to the little timber-roofed church.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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