travel(2) (iou) and rubble (iou)

travel(2) (iou)

Travel verb. Infl. -ll-, *-l-. Also travail. See also TRAVAIL verb. ME.
[Var. of TRAVAIL verb.]
I.
See TRAVAIL verb. ME.
II.
verb intrans. Go from one place to another; make a journey, esp. of some length or abroad. ME.
V. Brittain We..travelled together from Leicester to Oxford. R. C. Hutchinson Half the passengers..were travelling fourth-class. A. Gray I would like to Travel.., visit Paris, Vienna, Florence. A. Tyler They were travelling through farm country.
b. Of a Methodist preacher: go round a circuit. L18.
c. Go from place to place as a Sales representative, working for a particular firm or dealing in a specified commodity. M19.
E. Bowen An ex-officer travelling in vacuum cleaners. E. Welty Bowman, who..travelled for a shoe company through Mississippi.
d. Of an animal, esp. a deer: move onwards in feeding. L19.
verb trans. Journey through (a country etc.); journey along or follow (a road or path). ME.
N. Shute I had travelled the world. Scientific American The street is..heavily traveled in the..rush hours.
b. Cover (a specified distance) in travelling. LME.
C. Isherwood He could have travelled hundreds of miles across nowhere.
verb intrans. Move; proceed; pass, esp. deliberately or systematically from point to point; Science be transmitted. Usu. foll. by adverb or preposition. ME.
R. J. Graves Pains commencing in particular parts..and travelling back towards the spine. T. Hardy From the..library..his gaze travelled on to the various spires, halls, gables. J. M. Coetzee My soapy hand travels between her thighs. Guardian Nearly one in five thought sound travelled faster than light.
b. Of a machine or mechanical part: move, or admit of being moved, along a fixed course. E19.
c. Move quickly. colloq. L19.
d. Basketball. Make progress in any direction while carrying the ball, in violation of the rules. M20.
verb trans. Drive or transport (esp. livestock) from one place to another; convey. LME.
Daily Telegraph 'Meat' ponies should be travelled no further than to the nearest slaughterhouse.
b. Theatrical. Take (props etc.) with one from place to place. M20.
c. Publishing. Take (books) from place to place in order to promote and sell them. M20.
verb intrans. Esp. of a commodity: withstand a long journey. colloq. M19.
J. Welcome A charming Wine,..though they tell me it doesn't Travel. M. Hebden Like a delicate Wine, Pel..didn't Travel well.
travellable adjective (of a road etc.) able to be travelled along E17.
travelled ppl adjective (a) that has travelled; that has been travelled; (b) Geology (of blocks, boulders, etc.) transported to a distance from their original site, esp. by glacial action; erratic: LME.

rubble (iou)

rubble noun & verb. LME.
[Perh. from Anglo-Norman alt. of Old French robe spoils: see ROBE noun1. Cf. RUBBISH noun & adjective.]
A. noun.
Waste fragments of stone, brick, etc., esp. as the rubbish of decayed or demolished buildings. Formerly also, rubbish or refuse in General. LME.
K. Crossley-Holland They..reduced the..walls of Asgard to rubble.
Pieces of undressed stone used in building walls, as hard core, etc. M16.
b. Masonry made of rubble. Also rubble-work. E19.
Geology. Loose angular stones or fragments of broken material forming a mantle over some rocks, and found beneath alluvium or soil. L18.
Floating piles of ice fragments. L19.
Comb.: rubble-stone (a) = senses 2, 3 above; (b) in pl., stones of the Nature of rubble; rubble-work: see sense 2b above.
b. verb.
verb trans.
a. Crush, bring to ruin. Only in LME.
b. Cure (an ailment). Only in LME.
verb intrans. Poke or crawl about among rubbish or refuse. Now dial. M17.
verb trans. Reduce to rubble. Usu. in pass. E20.
rubbler noun a young or casual worker in a slate quarry M19.
rubbly adjective containing a lot of rubble; consisting of rubble, of the Nature of rubble: M18.

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