rumble

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

RUM'BLE, verb intransitive [Heb., Gr., Latin fremo.] To make a low, heavy, continued sound; as thunder rumbles at a distance, but when near, its sound is sharp and rattling. A heavy carriage rumbles on the pavement.
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