Pebble

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pebble
       n : a small smooth rounded rock

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  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)