- broken bits and pieces of anything, as that which is demolished: Bombing reduced the town to rubble.
- any solid substance, as ice, in irregularly broken pieces.
- rough fragments of broken stone, formed by geological processes, in quarrying, etc., and sometimes used in masonry.
- masonry built of rough fragments of broken stone.
- fragments of broken stones, bricks, etc
- any fragmented solid material, esp the debris from ruined buildings
- the weathered surface layer of rock
- masonry constructed of broken pieces of rock, stone, etc
