PEBBLED

Verb

pebbled

simple past tense and past participle of pebble

Adjective

pebbled

Having many pebbles

Having a surface that looks irregular, grainy, or crinkled.

Source: Wiktionary


Peb"bled, a.

Definition: Abounding in pebbles. Thomson.

PEBBLE

Peb"ble, n. Etym: [AS. papolstan; cf. L. papula pimple, mote. See Stone.]

1. A small roundish stone or bowlder; especially, a stone worn and rounded by the action of water; a pebblestone. "The pebbles on the hungry beach." Shak. As children gathering pebbles on the shore. Milton.

2. Transparent and colorless rock crystal; as, Brazilian pebble; -- so called by opticians. Pebble powder, slow-burning gunpowder, in large cubical grains.

– Scotch pebble, varieties of quartz, as agate, chalcedony, etc., obtained from cavities in amygdaloid.

Peb"ble, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pebbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Pebbling.]

Definition: To grain (leather) so as to produce a surface covered with small rounded prominences.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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