What does "rumble" mean?
Rumble: To murmur; to ripple. To rumble gently down with murmur soft. Spenser.
Additional senses
- 2.A noisy report; rumor. [Obs.] Delighting ever in rumble that is new. Chaucer.
- 3.A low, heavy, continuous sound like that made by heavy wagons or the reverberation of thunder; a confused noise; as, the rumble of a railboard train. Clamor and rumble, and ringing and clatter. tennyson. Merged in the rumble of awakening day. H. James.
- 4.A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage. Kit, well wrapped, . . . was in the rumble behind. Dickens.
- 5.A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or poliched by friction against each other. rumble seat, a seat in the rear of an automobile, outside the passenger cabin, which folds out from the body
- 6.To cause to pass through a rumble, or shaking machine. See Rumble, n., 4.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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