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pebble
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a shingle/pebble/pebbly beach (= covered with very small stones ) ▪ Both resorts have small shingle beaches. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE small ▪ Floors were sometimes plastered, especially in light-wells or ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A pebble is a clast of rock with a particle size of 2 to 64 millimetres based on the Krumbein phi scale of sedimentology . Pebbles are generally considered larger than granules (2 to 4 millimetres diameter) and smaller than cobbles (64 to 256 millimetres ...
Usage examples of pebble.
Oswald Brunies, the strutting, candy-sucking teacher -- a monument will be erected to him -- to him with magnifying glass on elastic, with sticky bag in sticky coat pocket, to him who collected big stones and little stones, rare pebbles, preferably mica gneiss -- muscovy biotite -- quartz, feldspar, and hornblende, who picked up pebbles, examined them, rejected or kept them, to him the Big Playground of the Conradinum was not an abrasive stumbling block but a lasting invitation to scratch about with the tip of his shoe after nine rooster steps.
With the heel of his palm on the underside, he flicked a callused thumb back and forth across the pebbled tip until her breast felt heavy and ached for some fulfillment she could not understand.
Beautiful rocky cliffs, full of caves, enclosed a little beach of colored pebbles, and then a strip of golden sand scattered over with rocks that held pools full of scarlet sea anemonies, and shells, and colored seaweeds like satin ribbon.
The areolas pebbled roughly, contrasting with the delicate smoothness of the skin surrounding it.
The brown nipples, surrounded by warm tan areoles, were pebbled to hard nubs -- the kind a man would nuzzle and suck into his mouth.
Next moment, he collided with a wall of stone and fell back on his heels while the bauble slipped from his grasp and dropped among the pebbles on the uneven ground.
He raised the camera, focused it along the pebble drive, began to photo Cleaver Hall between two bars.
I pulled a branch under the cowhide and scrabbled my fingers through the pebbles at my feet.
In the next, a true oddity, reading matter caught not in the facets of decagons but on supple wry-grass paper, lovingly handmade, bound with cor-tail thread, surrounded by covers fashioned from the speckled hides of razor-raptors, dyed hin-demuth, pebbled searay, even, astonishingly, perwillon.
They had nearly reached the bottom of the bowl when Delai crunched down the pebble path towards them.
We would watch the boats through the sky-glass, paddle in the water, gather shells and pebbles and mussels, and sit on the rocks and eat dulse, literally, by the yard.
Varnished Faiences -- Enamelled Faiences -- Silicious Faiences -- Pipeclay Faiences -- Pebble Work -- Feldspathic Faiences -- Composition, Processes of Manufacture and General Arrangements of Faience Potteries -- Stoneware.
I was a long time in discovering that this meaningless euphonic name was but the memory of the Isle aux Galets--the island of the pebbles.
Once in a chapel of remembrance she had found perfect pebbles of Tiffany favrile glass lying on the floor, in tobacco and a magnolia pink whose colour reminded her of the heather in Cornwall.
I lifted a pebble that happened to lie at the bottom of the boat and flung it at that creature with the melancholy eyes.