Stuart's Daily Word Spot: Rabble

Rabble: noun - longseries of words with little meaning or value (SA rather like a lot of modern poetry, then.); pack or swarm ofanimals; mob or disorderly crowd of people; a type of people imagined as gatheredin a mob; people of the lowest class, the common or disorderly part of a population.
'As Denise stepped out of the archway, she came face to facewith a rabble and was forced to retreat in order to avoid being crushed by theonrushing mob.'
'At the dog fight, the rabble gathered round, cursing andyelling encouragement to the poor beasts in the pit, forced to fight each otherto earn money for their masters and the idiotic punters.'
Pic: Staithes harbour, North Yorkshire.