rubblyadj.

1724 W. Benson in tr. Virgil Husbandry: 2nd Bk. Notes sig. I The loose rich Ground..looks dark, and fat, even below the piercing of the Share, but the hard rubbly Field, quite contrary, is all white and shining.

1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xxi. 141 The Concavity of the Fin..must be greatest in a stony rubbly Soil.

1758 W. Borlase Nat. Hist. Cornwall 152 Where nature has been more sparing of her cement, the ore is found in a lax, arenaceous, and rubbly state.

1839 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 2 209/1 The chalk in this district is of a rubbly description.

1851 T. Debary Notes Resid. Canary Islands viii. 94 We rode on to La Atalya, a deep ravine, the head of which is composed of a rubbley kind of stone.

1894 Ramsay's Physical Geol. 148 Near the surface, it assumes a rubbly character, and forms a fertile soil.

1904 Proc. Bristol Naturalists' Soc. 10 37 The lower rubbly band contains few fossils.

1972 Jrnl. Paleontol. 46 387/1 Limestone beds are often rubbley when weathered because of the trails of shale introduced into them.

2003 R. MacFarlane Mountains of Mind (2004) vi. 171 It had taken a seven-hour journey..over the rubbly mining roads which led through the western reaches of the mountains.