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rumble

rumble is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 6 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.To murmur; to ripple. To rumble gently down with murmur soft. Spenser.
  2. 2.A noisy report; rumor. [Obs.] Delighting ever in rumble that is new. Chaucer.
  3. 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. 4.A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage. Kit, well wrapped, . . . was in the rumble behind. Dickens.
  5. 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. 6.To cause to pass through a rumble, or shaking machine. See Rumble, n., 4.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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