'Pebble' definitions:
Definition of 'pebble'
From: WordNet
noun
A small smooth rounded rock
Definition of 'Pebble'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- As children gathering pebbles on the shore. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Transparent and colorless rock crystal; as, Brazilian pebble; -- so called by opticians. [1913 Webster]
- Pebble powder, slow-burning gunpowder, in large cubical grains.
- Scotch pebble, varieties of quartz, as agate, chalcedony, etc., obtained from cavities in amygdaloid. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Pebble'
From: GCIDE
Synonyms of 'pebble'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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