rumble

noun

1. 1

   A low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach.

   The rumble from passing trucks made it hard to sleep at night.

2. 2

   slangA street fight or brawl.

3. 3

   A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.

4. 4

   datedA seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.

   Kit, well wrapped, […] was in the rumble behind.

   "I never was so sorry for any thing as for Mr. Glentworth's death," said Isabella Granard, endeavouring to screen her face from a small, sharp rain, to which her place in the rumble of a travelling carriage left her quite exposed.

verb

1. 1

   To make a low, heavy, continuous sound.

   If I don't eat, my stomach will rumble.

   I could hear the thunder rumbling in the distance.

   I watched him take his seat on the third row from the front, and I heard him rumble, “Nearer my God to thee,” some notes behind the rest of us.

2. 2

   To discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour.

   The police is going to rumble your hideout.

3. 3

   To move while making a rumbling noise.

   The truck rumbled over the rough road.

   As the train rumbled slowly over the Forth Bridge, the western sky was aflame with a particularly gorgeous sunset, and lights were twinkling from the small craft riding at anchor on the calm waters of the firth.

   Henderson, beginning a mini-run in the team with David de Gea on paternity leave, threw out to the left flank and Shaw had only one thought – to rumble upfield.

   We meet at Blackfriars station, in a rather incongruous little room with four seats, on the bridge high above the River Thames. […] Thameslink trains rumble past every minute. You can't just hear them - you feel them through the floor.

4. 4

   slangTo fight; to brawl.

5. 5

   To provide haptic feedback by vibrating.

6. 6

   To cause to pass through a rumble, or polishing machine.

7. 7

   obsoleteTo murmur; to ripple.

   The trembling streams which wont in channels clear To rumble gently down with murmur soft,[…]

interjection

1. 1

   An onomatopoeia describing a rumbling noise

Forms

plural

rumbles

past tense

rumbled

past participle

rumbled

present participle

rumbling

third person singular

rumbles