peb´ble|like´

peb|ble «PEHB uhl», noun, verb, -bled, -bling.

–n.

1. a small stone, usually worn smooth and rounded, especially by being rolled about by water or by glacial action: »

to wake a person by throwing pebbles at his window. So wears the paving pebble in the street (John Dryden).

2. a rough, uneven surface leather, paper, or other material.

3. a substance, especially leather, with a rough, uneven surface.

4. a) a colorless transparent kind of rock crystal sometimes used instead of glass in spectacles. b) a lens made of this.

–v.t.

1. to pave with pebbles: »

to pebble a walk.

2. to prepare (leather) so that it has a grained surface.

3. to pelt with pebbles: »

The peasants…betook themselves to stones, and…pebbled the priest (Scott).

╂[Old English papolstānas pebblestones]

–peb´ble|like´, adjective.