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▪ I. rumble, n.|ˈrʌmb(ə)l|
Forms: α. 4–5 rombel, 4–6 romble, 5 rombul, rowmble; 5 rumbil, 6 -byll, 5– rumble. β. Sc. 6 rummill, -yll, 9 rummel, rummle.
[f. rumble v.1 Cf. G. and Da. rummel, Norw. dial. ruml, Du. gerommel.]
1. a. A low, continuous, murmuring, grumbling, or growling sound, as that of thunder, distant cannon, heavy vehicles, etc.
c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1121 A foreste,..In which ther ran a rumbel and a swough. As though a storm sholde bresten euery bough. 1412–20Lydg. Troy Bk. (E.E.T.S) 638 With rowmble and swowe resownyng vnto dethe—Swiche a noise Grekis made þere. 1513Douglas æneis v. xii. 54 Hillis and valis trymblit of thondir rummyll. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 921/2 Which [guns] made such a rumble in the aire, that it was like thunder. 1728Phil. Trans. XXXVI. 126 These..Rumbles and Tremblings, were louder and greater at Newbury..than with us. 1817J. Scott Paris Revisit. (ed. 4) 122 It was the rumble of cannon. 1842Dickens Amer. Notes (1850) 57/1 The deep rumble of carts and waggons. 1859FitzGerald Omar Khayyám xiii, The rumble of a distant Drum. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 43 The development of a true presystolic rumble.
b. Applied to language or utterance.
a1680Butler Rem. (1759) I. 110 You wisely scorn your Stile to humble, Or for the Sense's Sake to wave the Rumble. 1711tr. Werenfels' Meteors of Stile 218 Admirable Words to fill the Mouth, and make a graceful Rumble. 1897P. Warung Tales Old Regime 164 The rumble gave place to a strange pleading. 1902‘Linesman’ Words Eyewitness 217 As he talks in his jerky rumble.
c. In sound reproduction, low-frequency noise originating as mechanical vibration in a turntable. Also attrib. and Comb.
1949Frayne & Wolfe Elem. of Sound Recording xiv. 271 An additional factor that must be considered in noise measurements is the vibration or ‘rumble’ of the turntable. 1968Times 29 Nov. (Sound of Leisure Suppl.) p. vii/1 Background noise while a record is playing can be very disturbing and it is the elimination of this noise, appropriately called rumble, which is the main concern of the manufacturers of gramophone records and record playing units. 1970J. Earl Tuners & Amplifiers i. 19 Sometimes the high-pass filter is referred to as the rumble filter, since its bass attenuation characteristic significantly reduces the amplifier's response to low-frequency noises generated by the turntable unit and passed on via the disc and pickup. 1971Hi-Fi Sound Feb. 67/2 With a rumble-free turntable, a player may cost as much as an entire low-budget sound system. 1977Time 10 Oct. 43/1 (Advt.), There is rumble from the cutting machine in most record grooves.
d. A rumour. U.S. colloq.
1961P. A. Brodeur in Webster s.v., Picked up the rumble..and thought he'd pass it on just in case. 1966‘E. McBain’ Eighty Million Eyes iv. 67 The neighbourhood rumble is that he was fooling around with one of their wives. 1974E. McGirr Murderous Journey 63 The rumble is that he works for Marcello.
2.
†a. Commotion, bustle, tumult, uproar. Obs.
c1386Chaucer Clerk's T. 941 A stormy peple,..Delitynge euere in rumbul that is newe. 1513More Chron. Wks. 43 Aboute whome he found muche heauinesse, rumble, haste and businesse. 1533― Apol. xxii. ibid. 885/1 In the time of..Henry the fourth, aboute the time of a great rumble that the heretiques made. 1577Hellowes Gueuara's Chron. 425 The fighte and slaughter was so great, and the confusion, rumble, and crie of people so extreeme. 1675Cotton Burlesque upon B. 101 And no more such a rumble keep. 1682W. Rogers 7th Pt. Christian-Quaker 36 We see no real Cause..for the great noise and rumble he makes about Outward Laws.
b. A street-fight between rival gangs. Also fig. slang (chiefly U.S.).
1946Amer. Mercury Apr. 480 We're going to have a rumble with the Happy Gents tonight. Gang kids call these fights rumbles. 1953Kramer & Karr Teen-Age Gangs p. v, A ‘rumble’—a wild group fight—which gang youths consider the glamorous high point of their existence. Ibid. i. 4 A leader naturally headed his followers in a rumble with another gang. 1958H. E. Salisbury Shook-Up Generation (1959) iv. 64 He would do things no other boy would dare. He would sound a cop on the beat and run away laughing. In a rumble he was like a wild⁓cat. 1969C. Burke God is Beautiful, Man (1970) 38 By the time they got the drink there was a big rumble brewin'. The Israelites set up a big crash pad and there was another gang that didn't like it and they decided they would have a real big rumble with these Moses people. 1971P. L. Cave Chopper iv. 28 So I missed out on a rumble tonight. 1977Time 31 Oct. 55/1 Singer Frank Sinatra seldom ducks a rumble with a reporter.
†3. Sc. A severe blow. Obs.
1375Barbour Bruce xii. 557 Thar mycht men se..mony a reale romble [v.r. rymmyll] rid Be roucht, thar apon aythir sid. 1434Bk. Alexander Gt. 57 Mony ruid rummill thay gaif.
4. The hind part of a carriage when so arranged as to provide sitting accommodation (usually assigned to servants or attendants), or to carry luggage. Cf. rumbler 2, and rumble-tumble 1. Hence in a motor vehicle, = rumble seat. U.S.
1808A. Grant Mem. & Corr. (1844) I. 162 Miss D. and Isabella go in the rumble, as it is called, behind. 1811Sporting Mag. XXXVII. 128 Alterations and extras..were made, among others, a rumble, with trunks. 1854Thackeray Newcomes xxvii, Carriages which..from interior, box, and rumble discharge a dozen English people at hotel gates. 1884Queen Victoria More Leaves 281, I got into a hired..open landau (on the rumble of which Brown sat, as in crowds it is much safer to have a person close behind you). 1929W. Faulkner Sanctuary; Orig. Text (1981) vii. 82 The car drew up... The ones in the rumble said nothing. 1939― Wild Palms 90 McCord drove them up to the lake on the Saturday night before Labor Day, the hundred dollars worth of food—the tins, the beans and rice..—in the rumble. 1941B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? viii. 189 I'll look in the rumble... I think I have some.
5. A rotating box or cask in which iron articles are shaken and cleaned by friction.
1843Holtzapffel Turning I. 346 Small works are additionally cleaned in a rumble, or revolving cask, where they soon scrub each other clean.
6. [Perhaps a different word.] An interruption in the course of a crime; an alarm; a tip-off. Criminals' slang.
1911C. G. Roe Horrors of White Slave Trade iv. 80, I posed as a theatrical manager..and caught many an unwary stage struck girl... I was taking small chances of being caught and in fact did not have a ‘rumble’ during all the time I was there. 1913A. Stringer Shadow v. 93 ‘But he blew out for 'Frisco this morning,’ contended the puzzled Sheiner. ‘Shot through as though he had just had a rumble!’ 1914Jackson & Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 73 If you walk on the main stem you'll get a rumble. 1927D. Hammett in Black Mask Feb. 17/2 The neighbors give us the rumble. 1949A. Hynd We are Public Enemy i. 21 The cops had gotten a rumble that..gangsters were holed up. 1949in Wentworth & Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang (1960) 437/1 If there's a rumble, we do the time. 1957Life 9 Dec. 57 The boys slip into town. You wouldn't think they would be noticed. But some busybody catches on and puts in a rumble.
7. attrib. and Comb., as rumble seat N. Amer. = dicky, dickey n. 9 c; rumble strip (see quots. 1962 and 1975).
1912Collier's 23 Mar. 20/3 She's burnin' the wind out of town in a college boy's car with big May on the rumble seat behind. 1929M. Lief Hangover 301 The next morning she packed a small bag of necessaries, stowed it in the rumble seat, and drove off. 1951T. Capote Grass Harp iv. 95 They'd stuffed her into the rumble-seat of Big Eddie's old coupé and driven straight to the jail. 1972Evening Telegram (St. John's, Newfoundland) 5 Aug. 15/1 Three old-fashioned things you seldom see on the roads these days... Running boards, rumble seats and courtesy.
1962Punch 27 June 960/2 American towns have been experimenting with ‘rumble strips’—coarse-textured expanses of road surface just before cross-roads. 1974Oxford Times 12 July 15/3 Rumble strips put down in the road to slow traffic had no effect. 1975Daily Mail 3 Jan. 11/4 Rumble strips: These are tiny ridges on a road surface which cause a high-pitched whine as the car tyres pass over them... They indicate a hazard ahead.
▪ II. rumble, v.1|ˈrʌmb(ə)l|
Forms: α. 4 romblen, 5–7 romble, 6 rombel-, roomble, roumble; 4 rumbelyn, 5–6 rumbel-, 6 rumbil(l, -byl, rumbol, 4– rumble. β. (Chiefly Sc.) 5 romel-, rummelon(e, rum(me)lyn, 6 rumil, -yl, rummel, -ill, -yl(l, 9 rummle.
[ME. romblen, rumblen, = MDu. rommelen, rummelen (Du. rommelen, Fris. rommelje), G. rummeln, † rumeln (15th c.), MSw. rumbla, Da. rumle, Norw. rumla, of onomatopœic origin, and perhaps properly a LG. word.]
1. intr. To make a low, heavy, continuous sound:
a. Of thunder or other natural causes.
c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 1218 Dido, Among al this to rumbelyn [v.r. romblen] gan the heuene. 1480Robt. Devyll 42 All the grounde of the noyse rombled. 1513Douglas æneis iv. iv. 63 In the meyn quhile, the hevinnis all about With fellon noyis, gan to rummyll and rowt. 1582Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 65 A thundring In the skye dyd rumble. 1602Dekker Honest Wh. Wks. 1873 II. 82 Romble, romble goe the waters. a1680Butler Rem. (1759) I. 198 The Thunder And Lightning loud did rumble. 1756P. Browne Jamaica 7 The mountains rumbled, cracked, and opened in several places. 1798Coleridge Anc. Mar. vii. viii, A sound was heard. Under the water it rumbled on. 1832W. Irving Alhambra II. 235 A large stone..rebounded from side to side, rumbling and tumbling, with a noise like thunder. 1851Hawthorne Snow Image, etc. (1879) 80 An earthquake rumbled through the town. 1872Jenkinson Guide Eng. Lakes (1879) 148 The waves are distinctly heard.., rumbling in a narrow and distant part.
fig.1647N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. xlvii. (1739) 77 The Canon-Law, that ever since Austin's coming, like Thunder, rumbled in the Clouds. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. iii. xii. 34 That thunder which long before rumbled in his threatnings, now gave the crack.
b. Of the bowels, or the air in them.
1535Coverdale Isaiah xvi. 11 Wherfore my bely rombled (as it had bene a lute) for Moabs sake. 1572Satir. Poems Reform. xxxiii. 92 My bowells Rumbills as thay wald vther eit. 1602Marston Ant. & Mel. i. Wks. 1856 I. 16 His bowels rumbling with winde passion. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. viii. 311 When the Belly rumbles without any swelling. 1721Mortimer Husb. (ed. 3) I. 236 And when behind he will be very stiff, and his Guts rumble. 1797J. Downing Disord. Horned Cattle 72 The wind rumbleth in its bowels.
c. In miscellaneous uses.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 367/2 His thye beganne romble and made soo grete a noyse that it semed that the bone brake. 1596Spenser F.Q. v. ii. 50 His timbered bones all broken rudely rumbled. 1638Junius Paint. Ancients 41 When the wind-shaken ropes rumble and rustle. 1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xi. ⁋15 Irregularities will both Mount and Sink the Cramp-Irons, and make them Run rumbling upon the Ribs. 1848Dickens Dombey lvi, The organ rumbled and rolled as if the church had got the colic. 1874L. Carr J. Gwynne I. i. 20 Those words of comfortable wisdom, which rumbled sonorously overhead.
fig.a1652Brome Queenes Exch. ii. i, A wild confusion rumbles in my brain. 1700Dryden Wife of Bath's T. 178 The counsel rumbled till it found a vent.
2. a. To move or travel with a continuous murmuring, or low, rolling sound. Const. up, down, round, back, by, etc.
c1384Chaucer H. Fame ii. 1026 The grete soun..that rumbleth vp and doun In fames house. 1569Spenser Vis. Petrarch 44 A Spring of water mildely romblyng downe. 1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. ii. 712 It rouls, and roars, and round-round-round it rumbles. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) I. 69 Stones..rumbling along the sides of the descent for some time. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop xv, Some straggling carts and coaches rumbling by. 1893H. Vizetelly Glances back II. xxiv. 47 The cab rumbled back to town.
fig.1861Sat. Rev. Nov. 539 The story would rumble on in all its dreary integrity. 1862S. Lucas Secularia 89 The war that was rumbling past them was no business of theirs.
b. transf. Of persons: To be conveyed in a rumbling vehicle.
1803G. Colman John Bull ii. ii. 19 I've rumbled on the road, all night, Frank; my bones ache. 1832W. Irving Alhambra II. 182 He ordered out his carriage of state, and..rumbled down the avenue of the Alhambra. 1864G. M. Musgrave Ten Days in Fr. Parsonage I. iv. 120 We rumbled over the stones. 1883Harper's Mag. Feb. 395/1 We rumbled away in a sort of mourning-coach.
3. Of persons:
†a. To make a noise, disturbance, or tumult. Obs.
c1386Chaucer Monk's T. 555 The peple cride, and rombled vp and doun, That with his erys herde he how they seyde. c1412Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 2754 Þe peple gan to rumble, & clappe & crye. 1441Plumpton Corr. (Camden) p. lv, And they went ro[m]bling up the said towne & downe; they said openly [etc.].
†b. To mutter or murmur. Obs.
c1440Promp. Parv. 439/2 Rummelon or prively mystron, mussito.
c. To utter rumbling sounds or tones.
1755H. Walpole Let. to Conway 15 Nov., Nugent roared, and Sir Thomas rumbled.
d. To have a gang fight. slang (chiefly U.S.).
1959Listener 29 Jan. 201/2 Do you know why a ‘diddley bop’ should put on a ‘stenjar’ to ‘go down’ to ‘rumble’ at a ‘jitterbug’... That is the language of the teenage gangs of New York. 1969S. Greenlee Spook who sat by Door xiv. 121 The teenage gangs..haven't been rumbling and so they have a lot of latent hostility to get rid of. 1977‘E. McBain’ Long Time no See viii. 116 We was tired, man. We been rumblin all the past month..gang-busting.
4. a. To produce a rumbling noise by agitating or moving something. rare.
c1386Chaucer Can. Yeom. Prol. & T. 769 He.. in the water rombled to and fro. And wonder pryuely took vp also The coper teyne. 1530Palsgr. 693/1, I romble, I make noyse in a house with remevyng of heavy thynges, je charpente. 17..Ramsay Wyfe of Auchtermuchty xi, Quhen he had rumblit a full lang hour, The sorrow crap of butter he gat.
†b. To toss about in bed or on the ground. Obs.
15..How a Serjeaunt wolde be a Frere 247 in Hazl. E.P.P. III. 128 They roule and romble, they turne and tumble, as pygges do in a poke. 1520Calisto & Melib. in Hazl. Dodsley I. 66 Crito..I think lay nat easily, and began to rumble. 1581Rich Farew. N j b, Lucilla rumblyng from one side of the bedde vnto the other, had rolled of all the clothes.
†c. To move boisterously or noisily. Obs.
1553Respublica i. iii. 263, I wolde fayne be shouldering & rumboling emonge them. c1560A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) ii. 175 Sum ruscht, sum rummyld, and sum reild.
5. trans.
a. To cause to move or travel (also dial. to stir about, agitate) with a rumbling sound. † Also fig. to revolve.
1519W. Horman Vulgaria 196 b, Whan they had longe roumbled this treson in theyr mynde. 1614Rich Honestie of Age (1844) 8 Diogenes beganne to rolle and rumble his Tubb. 1632Lithgow Trav. x. 467 So caused he euery morning..his Coach to be rumbled at his gate. 1825Jamieson Suppl., To Rummle, to stir about; as, ‘to rummle potatoes’, when mixed with any liquid. 1867–in Eng. Dial. Dict.
b. To utter, run over, drone out, give forth, send down, with a rumbling sound.
15..Parl. Byrdes 63 in Hazl. E.P.P. III. 170 Than rombled the Doue for her lot, Folke may be mery and syng not. 1601Dent Pathway to Heaven (1603) 196 Then will they rumble over their praies, or be pattering some pater nosters. 1686G. Stuart Joco-Ser. Disc. 23 Sometimes having tane a fresh-cup, He'll rumble you out, ‘down drops the Bishop’. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Note-bks. (1872) I. 18 The organ was rumbling forth a deep, lugubrious bass. 1892Zangwill Childr. Ghetto xii. I. 255 They rumbled and roared and chorused prayers with a zeal that shook the window-panes. 1898Kipling Fleet in Being 3 The Officer of the Bridge rumbled requests down the speaking-tube to the engine-room.
†c. ? To shake or furbish up. Obs.—1
1621Lady M. Wroth Urania 476 Those that were of the age before, who hauing young minds rumbled vp their old carcases, and rubd ouer their wrinckling faces.
d. slang. To put out, rule out, unceremoniously; to handle roughly.
1811Sporting Mag. XXXVII. 128 Mr. Jekyll..was afraid that his client must consent to be rumbled out of Court. 1815Ibid. XLVI. 65 Croxey rumbled his antagonist in the first five rounds of the combat. 1963Times 28 Jan. 9/5 Many people who even want Britain to enter the Common Market express a little joy in seeing de Gaulle rumbling your people. 1976Ld. Annan in Ann. Rep. Univ. Coll. (London) 1975–76 7 It looks..as if the Department of Education and Science has rumbled the Schools Council plan for a common system of school leaving examinations, a proposal which the universities regarded with the deepest suspicion.
e. To clean in a rumble.
1904Harbord & Hall Metall. of Steel xxxiv. 532 Small forged or stamped and malleable cast articles, which can be ‘rumbled’ bright in a shaking barrel, take the metal fairly well. 1957New Scientist 7 Nov. 23/3 The thin parting bridges [of ball-bearings] are automatically severed and, after cooling, the balls are rumbled to remove the burr.
6. [Perhaps a different word.] trans. To get to the bottom of; to see through, understand, grasp; to recognize; to detect, discover, disturb. slang.
1886–96in Farmer & Henley Slang (1903) VI. 75/2, I rumbled the tip as a matter of course. 1898A. M. Binstead Pink 'Un & Pelican ix. 209, I soon rumbled he was in it, when I heard Ball givin' him the ‘me lord’ for it. 1912C. Mackenzie Carnival (ed. 5) x. 126 I've properly rumbled your friends. 1925N. Venner Imperfect Imposter iii. 30 He'd have rumbled me. He can't rumble me now. 1928E. Wallace More Educated Evans iii. 69, I rumbled you as soon as I took a screw through the winder. 1930P. MacDonald Link 74 If I hadn't had so many queer things happen to me in such a short time..I'd never have rumbled him. 1939Almanac for New Yorkers 125 Some mugs rumbled us. 1956‘A. Gilbert’ Riddle of Lady viii. 115 The tobacconist..had been rumbled and compelled to give evidence. Ibid. xi. 178, I might have guessed you'd rumble me. 1959Encounter Aug. 29/2 He evidently didn't rumble anything was at all unusual. 1966J. Bingham Double Agent iii. 43 You've been rumbled. What's the use of a gun? 1979E. Newman Sunday Punch xvi. 145 ‘Have you any influence with him?’ ‘He'd rumble that. He'd think I was your agent.’
▪ III. † ˈrumble, v.2 Obs.
[ME. romble, app. f. rome roam v.]
intr. To ramble.
1393Langl. P. Pl. C. vi. 11 Romynge [v.r. romblynge] in remembraunce thus reson me aratede. 1477Norton Ordin. Alch. iii. in Ashm. (1652) 39 This Science thei never founde,..But rumbled foorth, and evermore they sought. 1677Compl. Servant-Maid 62 A rouling stone never getteth moss,..so if you rumble up and down you will gain but little credit. 1722Ramsay Three Bonnets 85 (1877) II. 380 [She would] Rumble to ilka market-town. |