Pebble

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

pebble
    n 1: a small smooth rounded rock

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Pebble \Peb"ble\, n. [AS. papolst[=a]n; cf. L. papula pimple,
   mote. See {Stone}.]
   1. A small roundish piece of stone; especially, a stone worn
      and rounded by the action of water; a pebblestone. "The
      pebbles on the hungry beach." --Shak.
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            As children gathering pebbles on the shore.
                                                  --Milton.
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   2. Transparent and colorless rock crystal; as, Brazilian
      pebble; -- so called by opticians.
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   {Pebble powder}, slow-burning gunpowder, in large cubical
      grains.

   {Scotch pebble}, varieties of quartz, as agate, chalcedony,
      etc., obtained from cavities in amygdaloid.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Pebble \Peb"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pebbled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Pebbling}.]
   To grain (leather) so as to produce a surface covered with
   small rounded prominences.
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from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

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)

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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