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/rˈəmbəl/ Listen

noun

Rumble n.

1.

A noisy report; rumor. (Obs.) "Delighting ever in rumble that is new."

2.

A low, heavy, continuous sound like that made by heavy wagons or the reverberation of thunder; a confused noise; as, the rumble of a railroad train. "Clamor and rumble, and ringing and clatter." "Merged in the rumble of awakening day."

3.

A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage. "Kit, well wrapped,... was in the rumble behind."

4.

A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.

verb

Rumble v. t. To cause to pass through a rumble, or shaking machine. See Rumble, n., 4.

Rumble v. i.

1.

To make a low, heavy, continued sound; as, the thunder rumbles at a distance. "In the mean while the skies 'gan rumble sore." "The people cried and rombled up and down."

2.

To murmur; to ripple. "To rumble gently down with murmur soft."

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"Rumble" Quotes from Famous Books

... overcast now, and only brief glimpses of the moon were seen, heat-lightening darted out of the dark clouds now and then, and a faint far-off rumble as of thunder told that ...

— Little Men - Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys • Louisa May Alcott

... could be heard like artillery fire. Far up above the cloud-line they could see the snow tumbling over an upper precipice in powdery wind-blown cataracts; a minute later would come the thunderous {79} rumble of the falling masses. With heroic fortitude the voyageurs held their way against the fierce current, sometimes paddling, sometimes towing the canoe along the river-bank. Once, however, when Mackenzie and Mackay had gone ahead on foot to reconnoitre, ...

— Pioneers of the Pacific Coast - A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters • Agnes C. Laut

... Lily? ... He did not care ... He must go, and in half an hour he touched the swiftly trotting mare with the whip and glanced at his watch. "I shall just do it." The hedges passed behind, and the wintry prospects were unfolded and folded away. But as he approached the station, a rumble and then a rattle came out of the valley, and though he lashed the mare into a gallop, he arrived only in time to see ...

— Mike Fletcher - A Novel • George (George Augustus) Moore

... distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity. When Lady Russell not long afterwards, was entering Bath on a wet afternoon, and driving through the long course of streets from the Old Bridge to Camden Place, amidst the dash of other carriages, the heavy rumble of carts and drays, the bawling of newspapermen, muffin-men and milkmen, and the ceaseless clink of pattens, she made no complaint. No, these were noises which belonged to the winter pleasures; her spirits rose under their influence; and like Mrs Musgrove, she was feeling, though not ...

— Persuasion • Jane Austen

... of Mr. Tonans petrified by the great news, drinking it, and confessing her ahead of him in the race for secrets, arose toweringly. She had not ever seen the Editor in his den at midnight. With the rumble of his machinery about him, and fresh matter arriving and flying into the printing-press, it must be like being in the very furnace-hissing of Events: an Olympian Council held in Vulcan's smithy. Consider the bringing to the ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

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