PEBBLING
Verb
pebbling
present participle of pebble
Noun
pebbling (countable and uncountable, plural pebblings)
The placing of pebbles in any of several board games.
A way of graining leather with a ribbed or roughened appearance.
Source: Wiktionary
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