From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pebble \Peb"ble\, noun [AS. papolst[=a]n; 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pebble \Peb"ble\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Pebbled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pebbling}.] To grain (leather) so as to produce a surface covered with small rounded prominences.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a small smooth rounded rock
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
68 Moby Thesaurus words for "pebble": ace, asphalt, atom, bit, blacktop, carpet, causeway, cement, checkstone, cobblestone, concrete, dab, dole, dot, drakestone, dram, dribble, driblet, dwarf, farthing, fingerstone, flag, fleck, floor, flyspeck, fragment, gobbet, grain, granule, gravelstone, groat, hair, handful, iota, jackstone, jot, little, little bit, metal, minim, minimum, minutiae, mite, modicum, molecule, mote, nutshell, ounce, particle, pave, pebblestone, pinch, pittance, point, scruple, slingstone, smidgen, smitch, speck, spoonful, spot, tar, thimbleful, tiny bit, tittle, trifling amount, trivia, whit
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
Pebble A {polymorphic} language. ["A Kernel Language for Abstract Data Types and Modules", R.M. Burstall & B. Lampson, in Semantics of Data Types, LNCS 173, Springer 1984]. (1995-01-26)
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