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Of or pertaining to a rabble; like, or suited to, a rabble; disorderly; vulgar. [R.] Dryden.

A tumultuous crowd; a rabble; a noisy throng.

A tumultuous crowd of low people; a rabble. "Rude rablement." Spenser.

A scraping tool for smoothing metal.

To befoul with rain and mud; to drabble.

A broil; a noisy contest; a wrangle. This petty brabble will undo us all. Shak.

A brabble. [R.] Holland.

A clamorous, quarrelsome, noisy fellow; a wrangler. [R] Shak.

To draggle; to wet and befoul by draggling; as, to drabble a gown or cloak. Halliwell.

A draggle-tail; a slattern. Halliwell.

A piece of canvas fastened by lacing to the bonnet of a sail, to give it a greater depth, or more drop.

To grope; to feel with the hands. He puts his hands into his pockets, and keeps a grabbling and fumbling. Selden.

atch with the hands; to proceed by clawing with the hands and feet; to scramble; as, to scrabble up a cliff or a tree. Now after a while Little-faith came to himself, and getting up made shift to scrabble on his way. Bunyan.

An animal (as a horse or dog) with a short tail. Rag, tag, and bobtail, the rabble.

The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar.

Low, worthless people; the rabble. [Scot.] Jamieson.

A medley; offscourings or rabble.

The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the rabble; the mob. To fool the crowd with glorious lies. Tennyson. He went not with the crowd to see a shrine. Dryden.

To fight; to scuffle; to box. While the peers cuff to make the rabble sport. Dryden.

A leader of the rabble; one who attempts to control the multitude by specious or deceitful arts; an unprincipled and factious mob orator or political leader.