Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Abounding in small irregular stones; containing or consisting of rubble.
- Of the nature of rubble, or coarse irregular masonry.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Relating to, or containing, rubble.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Resembling
rubble . - adjective
Strewn with rubble.
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Examples
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But they are unluckily what the quarrier would term rubbly, -- traversed by an infinity of cracks and fissures; and it is rare indeed to find a continuous mass out of which a chimney-jamb or lintel could be fashioned.
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He twitched his camel forward, to skid down the sand dune and out across the rubbly plain toward the finish line.
Who Do You Say I Am 2010
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An aquifer may be a layer of gravel or sand, a layer of sandstone or cavernous limestone, a rubbly top or base of lava flows, or even a large body of massive rock, such as fractured granite, that has sizable cracks and fissures.
Groundwater 2010
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Before them a wide strip of rubbly, rocky ground sloped gently up to a natural rock palisade.
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Finally a gorge opened into a cuplike valley to and from which there was only this one entrance and exit, marked in pines and rubbly slopes.
Archive 2007-09-30 Bill Crider 2007
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Finally a gorge opened into a cuplike valley to and from which there was only this one entrance and exit, marked in pines and rubbly slopes.
Assignment: School for Spies -- Edward S. Aarons Bill Crider 2007
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The banyans gave way to an oppressive forest of Brazilian Peppers, and there we saw our first wildlife: a huge bobcat that stood for a moment in the rubbly remains of the road, hissing at us with its ears laid flat, then fled into the underbrush.
Duma Key King, Stephen, 1947- 2008
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I have even got used to the lack of colour, the open expanses of rubbly desert, the dusty palm trees and the copious construction work.
A quick preview of my new life in Qatar Julie Lindsay 2007
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The desert contains a varied scenery with dunes, rubbly areas, low-lying flood planes, and occasional clumps of vegetation.
Archive 2007-10-01 Julie Lindsay 2007
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The desert contains a varied scenery with dunes, rubbly areas, low-lying flood planes, and occasional clumps of vegetation.
Dune Bashing in Qatar Julie Lindsay 2007
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