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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.
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Pebble

Peb"ble\, n. [AS. papolst[=a]n; cf. L. papula pimple, mote. See Stone.]

1. A small roundish stone or bowlder; especially, a stone worn and rounded by the action of water; a pebblestone. "The pebbles on the hungry beach." --Shak.

As children gathering pebbles on the shore. --Milton.

2. 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.

Pebble

Peb"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pebbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Pebbling.] To grain (leather) so as to produce a surface covered with small rounded prominences.
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Language Translation for : pebble
Spanish: guija, guijarro, china,
German: der Kiesel,
Japanese: 小石
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pebble 
c.1290, from O.E. papolstan "pebblestone," of unknown origin.
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pebble   (pěb'əl)  Pronunciation Key 
A rock fragment larger than a granule and smaller than a cobble. Pebbles have a diameter between 4 and 64 mm (0.16 and 2.56 inches) and are often rounded.
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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)

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pebble

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

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