 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
pebble
noun: a small smooth rounded rock
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 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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