2. Noun. The placing of pebbles in any of several board games ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pebbling
1. pebble [v] - See also: pebble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pebbling
Literary usage of Pebbling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States by John William Wallace, United States Supreme Court (1903)
"... the apparatus for raising and lowering the table on which the leather is placed
as it is subjected to the operation of the pebbling instrument. ..."
2. Patent Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the United States: Including by Charles Sidney Whitman, United States Supreme Court (1875)
"Letters patent bearing date the twenty-ninth of March, 1864, w'jre granted to
the plaintiff for a new and useful improvement in boarding and pebbling ..."
3. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1909)
"pebbling.— For pebbling, dicing, graining, or for giving the leather any desired
surface, different rolls are substituted for the smooth roll used for ..."
4. Bench and Bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by William Thomas Davis (1895)
"He has been counsel in many important patent cases, among which were the "pebbling
machine cases," affecting largely the interests of the leather trade; ..."
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