rabble 1
/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. ]
rabble 2
— 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; râble fire-shovel, tool, MF raable rutabulum implement for shifting hot coals, equiv. to * ruta ( re ) presumed freq. of ruere to churn up, disturb + -bulum suffix of instrument ]