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noun

Pebble n.

A small roundish piece of stone; especially, a stone worn and rounded by the action of water; a pebblestone. "The pebbles on the hungry beach." "As children gathering pebbles on the shore."

Transparent and colorless rock crystal; as, Brazilian pebble; so called by opticians.

Pebble powder, slow-burning gunpowder, in large cubical grains.

Scotch pebble, varieties of quartz, as agate, chalcedony, etc., obtained from cavities in amygdaloid.

verb

Pebble v. t. (past & past part. pebbled; pres. part. pebbling) To grain (leather) so as to produce a surface covered with small rounded prominences.

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Etymology of 'Pebble'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pebble" Quotes from Famous Books

... still lay there a pebble touched the dirt lightly just before his face. Raising his head a couple of inches he saw a hand, dimly outlined at the edge ...

— Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops - Dick Prescott at Grips with the Boche • H. Irving Hancock

... said the India-rubber Man musingly, filling a pipe. "Some didn't. I only saw our guns actually sink one German Battleship; but the visibility was awful, and we weren't the only pebble on the beach; our line ...

— The Long Trick • Lewis Anselm da Costa Ritchie

... pintajxo. Peak (of cap, etc.) sxirmileto. Peal (of bells) sonorilaro. Pear piro. Pear-tree pirarbo. Pearl perlo. Pearl, mother of perlamoto. Peasant vilagxano, kamparano. Peat torfo. Pebble marsxtono, sxtoneto. Peccadillo peketo. Peculiar stranga. Pecuniary mona. Pedagogue pedagogo. Pedagogy pedagogio. Pedal pedalo. Pedant pedanto. Peddler kolportisto. Peddle kolporti. Pedestal piedestalo. Pedestrian piediranto. Pedigree deveno, ...

— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes

... there is not a red Indian, hunting by Lake Winnipeg, can quarrel with his squaw, but the whole world must smart for it: will not the price of beaver rise? It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of ...

— Sartor Resartus - The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh • Thomas Carlyle

... nook of a hill-side, the banks grown over with underwood, to which neither man nor beast, scarcely the winds of heaven, have any access. When you have found such a pond, you may create a great excitement amongst the easy-going newts and frogs who inhabit it, by throwing in a pebble. The splash in itself is a small splash enough, and the waves which circle away from it are very tiny waves, but they move over the whole face of the pond, and are of more interest to the frogs than ...

— Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes

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