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–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.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.