rabbling

English

Etymology

rabble +‎ -ing

Noun

rabbling (plural rabblings)

An uprising; a riot by a mob.
- 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], “[XIV]”, in Rob Roy. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 311:
  Nane were keener against it than the Glasgow folk, wi' their rabblings and their risings, and their mobs, […]

Verb

rabbling

present participle and gerund of rabble

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