| Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (v. i.) To make a low, heavy, continued sound; as, the thunder rumbles at a distance. 2. (v. i.) To murmur; to ripple. 3. (n.) A noisy report; rumor. 4. (n.) A low, heavy, continuous sound like that made by heavy wagons or the reverberation of thunder; a confused noise; as, the rumble of a railroad train. 5. (n.) A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage. 6. (n.) A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other. 7. (v. t.) To cause to pass through a rumble, or shaking machine. See Rumble, n., 4. | Multi-Version Concordance Rumble (3 Occurrences) Isaiah 17:13 But he will put a stop to them, and make them go in flight far away, driving them like the waste of the grain on the tops of the mountains before the wind, and like the circling dust before the storm. (See NAS) Jeremiah 47:3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers look not back to their children for feebleness of hands; (See NIV) Nahum 3:2 The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots, (See RSV) |