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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