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from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
rambling . Seeramble .
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Examples
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"rabbling" of the Episcopalian clergy in its western shires, revived the old bitterness of the clergy towards the dissidents.
History of the English People, Volume VII (of 8) The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 John Richard Green 1860
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While Islamists feel the need to create an Islamic theocracy, the Islamofascist throws in all these great extras, like hero-worship, Jew-race-baiting, Genocidal rabbling, calls to expel or oppress foreign nationals, and justifications for the mass killings of innocent noncombatants.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week at George Washington University: 2007
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There was once a talk of rabbling him the fifth of November before the last, because they said he kept a nunnery in his house, like old Lady Foljambe; but Master
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There are several modifications of the reverberatory furnace in use, designed mechanically to effect the rabbling.
Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
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One disadvantage of the reverberatory furnace is the fact that it is impossible to avoid the incursion of air during the manual rabbling action, and this tends to cool the furnace.
Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
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The changes were carried out with little disturbance to the peace, there was no blood spilt, and except for some rough usage of Episcopalians in the west (known as the "rabbling of the curates"), there was nothing in the way of outrage or insult.
An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait
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I _might_ have put it, 'In the King's name,' but what I meant was that we are to proceed in decency and order -- no unseemly rabbling, scuffling, or mischief making -- otherwise ye have me to reckon with.
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The method that occurred to me was the substitution of a small steam pipe in the place of the puddler's rabbling bar.
James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography. Nasmyth, James 1885
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The puddler, by his dexterous use of the end of the rabbling bar, puts the masses together, and, in fact, welds the new-born particles of malleable iron into puddle-balls of about three-quarters of a hundredweight each.
James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography. Nasmyth, James 1885
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During the trial, which lasted more than a fortnight, a mob attended the Doctor's carriage every day from his lodgings in the Temple to Westminster Hall, huzzaing, and pressing to kiss his hand, and spent the evenings in rabbling the Dissenters 'meeting-houses, and hooting before the residences of prominent Whigs.
Daniel Defoe Minto, William, 1845-1893 1879
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