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robulla

robulla, ~um [ME robel], broken fragments of stone, also used as building material, rubble (also attrib.). 1302 pro terra que dicitur roboillo interposita inter gistas et plumbum stadii superioris ejusdem turris MinAc 771/1 m. 6; 1367 Jacobo Coker pro petra rubylla ab eodem empta Arch. Bridgw. I 160; 1425 pro equo ad cariandum rubyll’ Ac. Churchw. Bath 32; 1427 pro †cariagii [l. cariagio] fimi et robull’ Ib. 38; 1430 in conduccione ‥ laborarii ‥ cariantis rubell’ a turre ‥ extra manerium KR Ac 499/3 m. 3; 1437 in zabulo et arena fodiendis et cariandis pro ‥ tenemento et pro roboyll’ extra domum cariando, xvij s. viij d. Ac. Obed. Abingd. 113.

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