Rabblement

Rabblement
Rabblement Rab"ble*ment (r[a^]b"b'l*ment), n. A tumultuous crowd of low people; a rabble. ``Rude rablement.'' --Spenser. [1913 Webster]

And still, as he refused it, the rabblement hooted. --Shak. [1913 Webster]


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  • rabblement — noun Date: 1548 1. rabble 2. disturbance …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • rabblement — /rab euhl meuhnt/, n. a tumult; disturbance. [1535 45; RABBLE1 + MENT] * * * …   Universalium

  • rabblement — rab·ble·ment …   English syllables

  • rabblement —  the mob. Var. Dial …   A glossary of provincial and local words used in England

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  • rabble — Synonyms and related words: and bobtail, army, bourgeoisie, canaille, cluster, cohue, common ruck, commonalty, commoners, crowd, crush, deluge, dregs, dregs of society, flock, flood, galaxy, gang, heap, hoi polloi, horde, host, jam, legion, lower …   Moby Thesaurus

  • rout — Synonyms and related words: a mass of, a world of, agitation, and bobtail, annihilate, army, attendance, attendant, bafflement, balk, batter, bawl, beat, beating, bellow, best, bevy, bluster, bobbery, body of retainers, boil, boiling, bring down …   Moby Thesaurus

  • ruck — Synonyms and related words: Everyman, Public, a mass of, a world of, aggregation, and bobtail, army, assemblage, average, average man, bank, bevy, bezel, bunch, canaille, chamfer, chase, chink, cloud, cluster, clutter, cock, cocker, cockle, cohue …   Moby Thesaurus

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