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Rumble   /rˈəmbəl/   Listen
noun
Rumble  n.  
1.
A noisy report; rumor. (Obs.) "Delighting ever in rumble that is new."
2.
A low, heavy, continuous sound like that made by heavy wagons or the reverberation of thunder; a confused noise; as, the rumble of a railroad train. "Clamor and rumble, and ringing and clatter." "Merged in the rumble of awakening day."
3.
A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage. "Kit, well wrapped,... was in the rumble behind."
4.
A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.


verb
Rumble  v. t.  To cause to pass through a rumble, or shaking machine. See Rumble, n., 4.


Rumble  v. i.  
1.
To make a low, heavy, continued sound; as, the thunder rumbles at a distance. "In the mean while the skies 'gan rumble sore." "The people cried and rombled up and down."
2.
To murmur; to ripple. "To rumble gently down with murmur soft."





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"Rumble" Quotes from Famous Books



... executed the work was what first made its conception possible; but this conception, finding the work responsive in some measure to its inner demand, attributes that response to its own magic prerogative. Hence the least stir and rumble of formative processes, when it generates a soul, makes itself somehow that soul's interpreter; and dim as the spirit and its expression may both remain, they are none the less in profound concord, a concord which ...
— The Life of Reason • George Santayana
... on and the babble of voices about them joined the crunching rumble of the wheels, he wanted to lean close to her and tell her how a few hours had changed the world for him. And then, for a moment, her eyes turned to him again, and he knew that it would be a sacrilege to give voice ...
— The Hunted Woman • James Oliver Curwood
... tubby wooden craft, the winds his carrier, across oceans that were pathless, except to the venturer. He returned by steam, through seas which it had tamed to the churn and rumble of the screw. What thought in the contrasting pictures of the world! The two Englands might have met each other in the ...
— The Romance of a Pro-Consul - Being The Personal Life And Memoirs Of The Right Hon. Sir - George Grey, K.C.B. • James Milne
... thought it a great joke. I changed seats with the jockey, which put me beside a young gentleman of a literary turn of mind, with whom I had some conversation about books when the dust, rumble of wheels, and turf talk of my other neighbour permitted. They were all very kind to me—gave me fruit, procured me drinks of water, and took turns in nursing a precious hat, for which, on account of the crush, no safe place could be found ...
— My Brilliant Career • Miles Franklin
... surface ships were able to head their quarry into the mine-field. Usually the submarine dived deep in order to throw her pursuers off the track, and all unconscious of the deep-laid mines in thousands she plunged to her doom—a heavy rumble, followed by an upheaval of the surface, and the chase ...
— Submarine Warfare of To-day • Charles W. Domville-Fife


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