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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

... a landslide occurred on the side of the mountain with a rumble like the noise of fifty trains. In the morning, the rain clouds lifting for a moment, Marie saw the narrow yellow line of ...

— The Street of Seven Stars • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... about twelve. There is a railway station close by the ruins; and a new hotel stands within the precincts of the abbey grounds; and continually there is the shriek, the whiz, the rumble, the bell-ringing, denoting the arrival of the trains; and passengers alight, and step at once (as their choice may be) into the refreshment-room, to get a glass of ale or a cigar,—or upon the gravelled paths of the lawn, leading to the old broken walls and arches ...

— Passages From the English Notebooks, Complete • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... sparrows, the jingle of bells, the hooting of a siren, or was it my neighbor singing "A rose I gave to you"? of course it was,—the rumble of a post-office van, and the cry of children's voices, rather peevish voices, poor mites! Never ...

— The Professional Aunt • Mary C.E. Wemyss

... could be built if the glaciers were on the same side of the river, but—they're not. They face each other, and they're alive, too. Listen!" The oarsmen ceased rowing at Dan's signal, and out of the northward silence came a low rumble like the sound of distant cannonading. "We must be at least twenty miles away, in an air line. The ice stands up alongside the river, hundreds of feet high, and it breaks off in chunks as big as a New ...

— The Iron Trail • Rex Beach

... Buster the Bear in a deep rumble, rolling over on his fat sides. "Ho! Ho! Ho! What a scare I gave you! Now we're quits. ...

— Bumper, The White Rabbit • George Ethelbert Walsh

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