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Grubble vs Rubble - What's the difference?

grubble | rubble |

As a verb grubble

is (obsolete) to feel or grope in the dark.

As a noun rubble is

the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.

grubble

English

Verb

(grubbl)
  • (obsolete) To feel or grope in the dark.
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  • (Webster 1913)

    rubble

    English

    Noun

  • The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.
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  • (geology) A mass or stratum of fragments of rock lying under the alluvium and derived from the neighbouring rock.
  • (Lyell)
  • (UK, dialect, in the plural) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.
  • (Simmonds)

    Derived terms

    * reduce to rubble * rubblestone * rubblework

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