rabble

rabble
rabble1
/rab"euhl/, n., v., rabbled, rabbling.
n.
1. a disorderly crowd; mob.
2. the rabble, the lower classes; the common people: The nobility held the rabble in complete contempt.
v.t.
3. to beset as a rabble does; mob.
[1350-1400; ME rabel (n.), of uncert. orig.]
rabble2
rabbler, n.
/rab"euhl/, n., v., rabbled, rabbling. Metall.
n.
1. a tool or mechanically operated device used for stirring or mixing a charge in a roasting furnace.
v.t.
2. to stir (a charge) in a roasting furnace.
[1655-65; < F râble fire-shovel, tool, MF raable < L rutabulum implement for shifting hot coals, equiv. to *ruta(re) presumed freq. of ruere to churn up, disturb + -bulum suffix of instrument]

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