Definitions for rabbles

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rabbles rab·ble

Spelling: [rab-uh l]

IPA: /ˈræb əl/

Rabbles is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 199 anagrams from letters in rabbles (abbelrs).

Definitions for rabbles

noun

1. a disorderly crowd; mob.
2. the rabble, the lower classes; the common people:
3. a tool or mechanically operated device used for stirring or mixing a charge in a roasting furnace.

verb (used with object)

1. to beset as a rabble does; mob.
2. to stir (a charge) in a roasting furnace.

Origin of rabbles

1350-1400; Middle English rabel (noun), of uncertain origin

Examples for rabbles

It is the day of the Dantons, and the Marats, the day of the rabble.

A person of breeding choosing the cause of the rout and rabble!

Behind these stood a rabble of some thirty others at six sous apiece.

All the excitement of her rabble rousing had been suitably extinguished, along with our enthusiasm for this show.

Could the West rely on the more or less faceless Libyan opposition, a rabble in arms, to be so pliable?

Earlier in the book, Murray waxed indignant about the "condescension toward the rabble" he detected in the new upper class.

I was trapped backstage with a rabble of photographers behind a security fence as the models filed out.

And are these people—this rabble that you talk of—received as my papa's guests?

She lifted one hand in a gesture of command, and called out to the rabble.

The culture of the new upper class carries with it an unmistakable whiff of a 'we're better than the rabble' mentality.