pebble

English

Pebbles on a beach.

From Old English papol, in papolstān. Apparently close to Albanian popël.

pebble (countable and uncountable, plural pebbles)

A small stone, especially one rounded by the action of water.
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
  the pebbles on the hungry beach
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
  children gathering pebbles on the shore
(geology) A particle from 4 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
(curling) A small droplet of water intentionally sprayed on the ice that cause irregularities on the surface.
Transparent and colourless rock crystal.
Brazilian pebble
A form of slow-burning gunpowder in large cubical grains.
Synonyms: cube powder, prismatic powder

stone

Afrikaans: spoelklippie, kiesel
Albanian: çakëll (sq) m, hakëll m
Arabic: حَصَاة‎ f (ḥaṣāh)
Egyptian Arabic: حصوة‎ f (ḥaṣwa)

Hijazi Arabic: حَصْوة‎ f (ḥaṣwa)
Aromanian: chitritseauã f
Catalan: còdol (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 石仔 (sek⁶ zai²)

Mandarin: 礫石 (zh), 砾石 (zh) (lìshí), 石子 (zh) (shízǐ), 卵石 (zh) (luǎnshí), 鵝卵石 (zh), 鹅卵石 (zh) (éluǎnshí)
Classical Nahuatl: ātōyātetl
Czech: oblázek (cs) m
Danish: ral (da)
Dutch: kiezel (nl)
Esperanto: ŝtoneto
Estonian: veeris
Finnish: pikkukivi
French: galet (fr) m (on a beach), caillou (fr) m
Galician: seixo m, pelouro (gl) m, louro (gl) m, callau m, sento m, radego m, brello m, candollo m, xógara f, salavedro m, coio m
Georgian: კენჭი (ḳenč̣i)
German: Stein (de) m, Steinchen (de) n, Kiesel (de) m, Kieselstein (de) m
Greek:
Ancient: ψῆφος f (psêphos)
Hindi: पथ्थर m (patthar)
Hungarian: kavics (hu)
Icelandic: steinn (is)
Ido: stono (io), stoneto (io)
Indonesian: kerikil (id)
Irish: méaróg f
Italian: ciottolo (it) m
Japanese: 小石 (ja) (こいし, koishi)
Javanese: please add this translation if you can

rock fragment between 4 and 64 millimetres in diameter

small droplet of water intentionally sprayed on the ice

pebble (third-person singular simple present pebbles, present participle pebbling, simple past and past participle pebbled)

(transitive) To pave with pebbles.
(transitive, curling) To deposit water droplets on the ice.
to pebble the ice between games
(transitive) To give (leather) a rough appearance with small rounded prominences.
(transitive, graph theory) To place a pebble at (a vertex of a graph) according to certain rules; see pebble game.

To pave with pebbles

To deposit water droplets on the ice

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