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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



... another tumbler, and d——n the gout!"—he had a sharp twinge. "I'll drink 'here's luck!' Frank, go pack your kit, and instead of demolishing Selby Sly, see Kitty decently sodded. Your mother, Constance, and myself will rumble after you to town by easy stages. I wonder how aunt Catherine will cut up. If she has left as much cash behind as she has lavished good advice in her parting epistle, by—" and my father did ejaculate a regular rasper—"I'll re-purchase the harriers, as I have got a whisper that poor Dick was ...
— International Weekly Miscellany, Vol. 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850 • Various
... The loud rumble of the wheels had waked little Vi, and as in a flash she had seen the whole—the horrible apparition in its glistening, rattling robes, step out from behind a tree and fire, and the tumble of its victim into the dusty road. Then she had sunk down upon the ground ...
— Elsie's Motherhood • Martha Finley
... Bolas Magna, which nestles, in its setting of green fields and orchards, almost in the shadow of the Wrekin. The traveller had tramped many a long league under a burning sun, and was too weary to fare farther. Moreover, night was closing in fast, and a few hissing raindrops and the distant rumble of thunder warned him that a storm was ...
— Love Romances of the Aristocracy • Thornton Hall
... Tonans petrified by the great news, drinking it, and confessing her ahead of him in the race for secrets, arose toweringly. She had not ever seen the Editor in his den at midnight. With the rumble of his machinery about him, and fresh matter arriving and flying into the printing-press, it must be like being in the very furnace-hissing of Events: an Olympian Council held in Vulcan's smithy. Consider the bringing to ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... there is a perceptible tumble. One can't "square" the weather or "get at" the glass. A storm? Oh! 'twas merely the least little rumble,— 'Twill probably pass. ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, August 13, 1887 • Various


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