rabbling
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]rabbling (plural rabblings)
- An uprising; a riot by a mob.
- 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter [XIV], in Rob Roy. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 311:
- Nane were keener against it than the Glasgow folk, wi' their rabblings and their risings, and their mobs, […]
Verb
[edit]rabbling
- present participle and gerund of rabble