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pebble leather

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peb⋅ble

[peb-uhl] noun, verb, -bled, -bling.
–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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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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