rabble

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

RAB'BLE, noun [Latin rabula, a brawler, from rabo, to rave.] 1. A tumultuous crowd of vulgar, noisy people; the mob; a confused disorderly crowd. 2. The lower class of people, without reference to an assembly; the dregs of the people.
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