Pebble
Pebble , noun
[Anglo-Saxon papolstān; compare Latin 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.
As children gathering pebbles on the shore.
2.
Transparent and colorless rock crystal; as, Brazilian pebble; -- so called by opticians.
Collocations (2)
Pebble powder , slow-burning gunpowder, in large cubical grains.
Scotch pebble , varieties of quartz, as agate, chalcedony, etc., obtained from cavities in amygdaloid.
Pebble , transitive verb
To grain (leather) so as to produce a surface covered with small rounded prominences.