Rabble meaning

răb'əl
A noisy, disorderly crowd; mob.
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A tumultuous crowd; a mob.
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The lowest or unrefined class of people. Often used with the.
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A group of persons regarded with contempt.
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An iron bar used to stir and skim molten iron in puddling.
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Any of various similar tools or mechanically operated devices used in roasting or refining furnaces.
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To stir or skim (molten iron) with an iron bar.
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To attack as or by a rabble; mob.
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An iron bar used to stir and skim molten iron in puddling.
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To stir or skim with such a bar.
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A mob; a disorderly crowd.
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The mass of common people; the lowest class of people.
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Origin of rabble

French râble fire shovel from Old French roable from Medieval Latin rotābulum from Latin rutābulum from rutus past participle of ruere to rake up, tumble down

Sentence Examples

  • These grains the puddler welds together by means of his rabble FIG.

  • "This rabble must be chased with whips, not smitten with swords," they cried.

  • The rebellion was the more dangerous as the town rabble was on the side of the peasants, and in Buda and other places the cavalry sent against the Kuruczok were unhorsed as they passed through the gates.

  • By this time Dozsa was losing control of the rabble, which had fallen under the influence of the socialist parson of Czegled, Lorincz Meszaros.

  • they who were looked upon as servants to the king being then called ` Cavaliers,' and the other of the rabble contemned and despised under the name of ` Roundheads.'" Baxter ascribes the origin of the term to a remark made by Queen Henrietta Maria at the trial of Strafford; referring to Pym, she asked who the roundheaded man was.

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