PEBBLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pebble mean? 

• PEBBLE (noun)
  The noun PEBBLE has 1 sense:

1. a small smooth rounded rock

  Familiarity information: PEBBLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEBBLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small smooth rounded rock

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("pebble" is a kind of...):

rock; stone (a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter)

Derivation:

pebbly (abounding in small stones)

 Context examples 

Gretel took the bread under her apron, as Hansel had the pebbles in his pocket.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

We went on again, picking up shells and pebbles.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Of course, it must have been the old metal and pebbles which my client had dragged from the mere.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Even before the star is fully formed, those dust grains come together to form pebbles, rocks and ultimately comets, which become transporters of phosphorus monoxide.

(Astronomers Reveal Interstellar Thread of One of Life’s Building Blocks, ESO)

Look also at the innumerable fish that are swimming in the clear waters, where we can distinguish every pebble that lies at the bottom.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“They will learn wisdom. They are bringing forward shield and mantlet. We shall have some pebbles about our ears ere long.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In each bladder was a small quantity of dried peas, or little pebbles, as I was afterwards informed.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Three days later a message was left scrawled upon paper, and placed under a pebble upon the sundial.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Several minutes later, rounding a turn in the trail where the descent was less precipitous, he joined them in the midst of a miniature avalanche of pebbles and loose soil.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Crab Wilson, as game as a pebble, met him with a flush hit every time, but no human strength or human science seemed capable of stopping the terrible onslaught of this iron man.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)