Pebble \Peb"ble\, n. [AS. papolst[=a]n; cf. L. papula pimple,
mote. See Stone.]
1. 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." --Shak.
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As children gathering pebbles on the shore.
--Milton.
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2. Transparent and colorless rock crystal; as, Brazilian
pebble; -- so called by opticians.
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Pebble powder, slow-burning gunpowder, in large cubical
grains.
Scotch pebble, varieties of quartz, as agate, chalcedony,
etc., obtained from cavities in amygdaloid.
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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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68 Moby Thesaurus words for "pebble":
ace, asphalt, atom, bit, blacktop, carpet, causeway, cement,
checkstone, cobblestone, concrete, dab, dole, dot, drakestone,
dram, dribble, driblet, dwarf, farthing, fingerstone, flag, fleck,
floor, flyspeck, fragment, gobbet, grain, granule, gravelstone,
groat, hair, handful, iota, jackstone, jot, little, little bit,
metal, minim, minimum, minutiae, mite, modicum, molecule, mote,
nutshell, ounce, particle, pave, pebblestone, pinch, pittance,
point, scruple, slingstone, smidgen, smitch, speck, spoonful, spot,
tar, thimbleful, tiny bit, tittle, trifling amount, trivia, whit
Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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