2. Verb. (third-person singular of pebble) ¹
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Definition of Pebbles
1. pebble [v] - See also: pebble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pebbles
Literary usage of Pebbles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Field Geology by Frederic Henry Lahee (1917)
"of sufficient age, may contain entirely disintegrated pebbles and bowlders of such
... Arrangement of pebbles.—In bedded deposits pebbles which are not ..."
2. The Journal of Geology by University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology (1906)
"The region in which the conglomerate pebbles occur forms the western margin ...
The beds of stretched pebbles, which at some places are several in number, ..."
3. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1880)
"These were all of them derived as pebbles from older Neocomian and Jurassic rocks,
... Besides these there are many other pebbles which are not ..."
4. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1895)
"IN a letter to this MAGAZIN к of May, 1895, headed " Tlie Indentation of the
Bunter pebbles," Mr. WS Gresley criticizes the summing-up of my views, ..."
5. Bulletin by Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology (1908)
"In the latter rock the pebbles exceed one foot in length and one specimen noticed by
... The pebbles are usually subangular or even rounded but in the basal ..."
6. Report of the Annual Meeting (1879)
"The lowest stratum that reposed on the floor of the cave consisted of a coarse
brown sand, mixed with gravel composed of fragments and pebbles of purplish, ..."
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