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noun

Rabble n. (Iron Manuf.) An iron bar, with the end bent, used in stirring or skimming molten iron in the process of puddling.

Rabble n.

A tumultuous crowd of vulgar, noisy people; a mob; a confused, disorderly throng. "I saw, I say, come out of London, even unto the presence of the prince, a great rabble of mean and light persons." "Jupiter, Mercury, Bacchus, Venus, Mars, and the whole rabble of licentious deities."

A confused, incoherent discourse; a medley of voices; a chatter.

The rabble, the lowest class of people, without reference to an assembly; the dregs of the people. "The rabble call him 'lord.'"

verb

Rabble v. t. To stir or skim with a rabble, as molten iron.

Rabble v. t. (past & past part. rabbled; pres. part. rabbling)

To insult, or assault, by a mob; to mob; as, to rabble a curate. "The bishops' carriages were stopped and the prelates themselves rabbled on their way to the house."

To utter glibly and incoherently; to mouth without intelligence. (Obs. or Scot.)

To rumple; to crumple. (Scot.)

Rabble v. i. To speak in a confused manner. (Prov. Eng. & Scot.)

adjective

Rabble adj. Of or pertaining to a rabble; like, or suited to, a rabble; disorderly; vulgar. (R.)

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"Rabble" Quotes from Famous Books

... in Duke Street was cordial, both on the part of my uncle and on the part of my aunt; the first being a good-hearted person, though a little too apt to run into extravagance on the subject of the rights of the rabble. I was pleased with the welcome I received, enjoyed an excellent hot supper, to which we sat down at half-past eight, my aunt being fond of town hours, both dining and supping a little later than my mother, as being more fashionable and genteel. [9] As I was compelled ...

— Satanstoe • James Fenimore Cooper

... friend or two more; as I did, after I arrived, last night, though I was compelled to leave them my sleigh and horses to bring them over, which accounts for my begging a passage with you. So, you see, that if this beggarly rabble offer to make any disturbance, I shall be prepared to teach them the cost of attempting to put down the ...

— The Rangers - [Subtitle: The Tory's Daughter] • D. P. Thompson

... poured by six guns into the camp. The rajah sent messenger after messenger to Forde, urging him to return; and he himself, with his frightened army, hurried towards Condore. Forde had, indeed, retraced his steps immediately he heard the fire of the guns, and soon met the rajah's rabble in full flight; and, uniting with them, marched back ...

— With Clive in India - Or, The Beginnings of an Empire • G. A. Henty

... army-forms. I can't nurse, though I daresay I could if I tried; but I hate amateurs. No amateurs in my show, I assure you. For my job I flatter myself I'm trained. A woman can't knock about the waste spaces of the earth by herself, head a rabble of pack-carrying savages, without gaining some experience in organization. In fact, when I'm not at my own hospital, which now runs on wheels, I'm employed as a sort of organizing expert—any old where they choose to send me. Do you think ...

— The Mountebank • William J. Locke

... in a nightmare. From time to time would come a rush, a stampede, of deer or tapirs, along the strip of beach between the water and the cliff. The toiling men would draw aside till the rabble went by, then fall to ...

— In the Morning of Time • Charles G. D. Roberts

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