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peb⋅ble

  [peb-uhl] noun, verb, -bled, -bling.
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–noun
1. a small, rounded stone, esp. one worn smooth by the action of water.
2. Also called pebble leather. leather that has been given a granulated surface.
3. any granulated or crinkled surface, esp. of a textile.
4. a transparent colorless rock crystal used for the lenses of eyeglasses.
5. a lens made from this crystal.
–verb (used with object)
6. to prepare (leather) so as to have a granulated surface.
7. to pelt with or as with pebbles.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME pibbil, puble, pobble; cf. OE pæbbel (in place names), papel-, popel- (in compounds); phonological relations unclear
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peb·ble   (pěb'əl)   
n.  

  1. A small stone, especially one worn smooth by erosion.

    1. Clear colorless quartz; rock crystal.

    2. A lens made of such quartz.

  3. Geology A rock fragment between 4 and 64 millimeters (0.16 and 2.51 inches) in diameter, especially one that has been naturally rounded.

  4. An irregularly rough, grainy surface, as on leather or paper.

tr.v.   peb·bled, peb·bling, peb·bles

  1. To pave with pebbles.

  2. To impart an irregularly rough, grainy surface to (leather or paper).

  3. To pelt with pebbles.


[Middle English pobble, pibel, pebul, from Old English papol- (as in papolstān, pebblestone).]
peb'bly adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

pebble 
c.1290, from O.E. papolstan "pebblestone," of unknown origin.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

Pebble
A polymorphic language.
["A Kernel Language for Abstract Data Types and Modules", R.M. Burstall & B. Lampson, in Semantics of Data Types, LNCS 173, Springer 1984].
(1995-01-26)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Idioms & Phrases

pebble

see not the only fish in the sea (pebble on the beach).

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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