'Scotch pebble' definitions:
Definition of 'Scotch pebble'
From: GCIDE
- Scotch \Scotch\, a. [Cf. Scottish.] Of or pertaining to Scotland, its language, or its inhabitants; Scottish. [1913 Webster]
- Scotch broom (Bot.), the Cytisus scoparius. See Broom.
- Scotch dipper, or Scotch duck (Zool.), the bufflehead; -- called also Scotch teal, and Scotchman.
- Scotch fiddle, the itch. [Low] --Sir W. Scott.
- Scotch mist, a coarse, dense mist, like fine rain.
- Scotch nightingale (Zool.), the sedge warbler. [Prov. Eng.]
- Scotch pebble. See under pebble.
- Scotch pine (Bot.) See Riga fir.
- Scotch thistle (Bot.), a species of thistle ({Onopordon acanthium}); -- so called from its being the national emblem of the Scotch. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Scotch 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]