pebble

[PebĀ·ble]

Pebbles are the small, round stones you might find on a beach. If you want a pet rock, a smooth pebble would be a good choice.

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A small roundish stone or bowlder; especially, a stone worn and rounded by the action of water; a pebblestone.

Noun
a small smooth rounded rock


n.
A small roundish stone or bowlder; especially, a stone worn and rounded by the action of water; a pebblestone.

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

v. t.
To grain (leather) so as to produce a surface covered with small rounded prominences.


Pebble

Peb"ble , n. [AS. papolst'ben; 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.
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.

A small roundish stone or bowlder; especially, a stone worn and rounded by the action of water; a pebblestone.

To grain (leather) so as to produce a surface covered with small rounded prominences.

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Usage Examples

Pebble Beach. It is tough and the lay out is amazing.

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

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Other Usage Examples

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

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