rabble

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1. rabble - Noun

2. rabble - Adjective

3. rabble - Verb

Meaning

An iron bar, with the end bent, used in stirring or skimming molten iron in the process of puddling.

To stir or skim with a rabble, as molten iron.

To speak in a confused manner.

A tumultuous crowd of vulgar, noisy people; a mob; a confused, disorderly throng.

A confused, incoherent discourse; a medley of voices; a chatter.

Of or pertaining to a rabble; like, or suited to, a rabble; disorderly; vulgar.

To insult, or assault, by a mob; to mob; as, to rabble a curate.

To utter glibly and incoherently; to mouth without intelligence.

To rumple; to crumple.

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'Lambe them, lads lambe them' a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time. Walter Scott

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding. Epicurus

I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea. Federico García Lorca

I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me. Horace

We have been entertained with a great variety of phrases, to avoid calling this sort of people a mob. Some call them shavers, some call them geniuses. The plain English is, gentlemen, most probably a motley rabble of saucy boys, negroes and mulattoes, Irish teagues and outlandish jack tars. John Adams

The rabble is not influenced by reason, but blind impulse. Latin Proverb

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