rumble

noun

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. (slang)A street fight or brawl.
3. A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.
4. (dated)A 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. (intransitive)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.”

2. (transitive)To discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour.

   “The police is going to rumble your hideout.”

3. (intransitive)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.”

4. (intransitive, slang)To fight; to brawl.
5. (intransitive)To provide haptic feedback by vibrating.
6. (transitive)To cause to pass through a rumble, or polishing machine.
7. (intransitive, obsolete)To murmur; to ripple.

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

intj

1. An onomatopoeia describing a rumbling noise

name

1. (countable, uncountable)A surname.
2. (countable, uncountable)An unincorporated community in Pike County, Indiana, United States.
3. (countable, uncountable)An unincorporated community in Boone County, West Virginia, United States.