1. Noun
Water-worn or rough broken stones; broken bricks, etc., used in coarse masonry, or to fill up between the facing courses of walls.
2. Noun
Rough stone as it comes from the quarry; also, a quarryman's term for the upper fragmentary and decomposed portion of a mass of stone; brash.
3. Noun
A mass or stratum of fragments or rock lying under the alluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock.
4. Noun
The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.
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