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Rubble vs Rubible - What's the difference?

rubble | rubible |

As nouns the difference between rubble and rubible

is that rubble is the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry while rubible is (obsolete) a ribble.

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

    Related terms

    * rubbish

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    rubible

    English

    Noun

  • (obsolete) A ribble.
    • (Chaucer)
    (Webster 1913)