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What does rubble mean?

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Noun
  1. The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.
  2. (geology) A mass or stratum of fragments of rock lying under the alluvium and derived from the neighbouring rock.
  3. (plural) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.
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Hopes that the workmen would finish the job on Monday were dashed when they left before lunchtime, with the chimney and rubble still in place.
They told us that the building wasn't standing any more and we were in the centre of rubble.
But there are fears that up to 3,000 may be buried in the rubble of bombed buildings and homes.
Construction is of rendered rubble walls, with brick features around window and door openings, brick quoins and a pitched slated roof.
Amid the rationing and the rubble of bombed buildings, there was hope for the future and television was part of it.
Outcrops of these green sandstone ledges are so encrusted with fossil oysters that they look like rubble from ancient middens.

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