- Water-worn or rough broken stones; broken bricks, etc.,
used in coarse masonry, or to fill up between the facing courses of
walls. - 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. - A mass or stratum of fragments or rock lying under the
alluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock. - The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into
pollard, bran, etc.
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