pebble

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  1. noun A small stone, especially one worn smooth by erosion.
  2. noun Clear colorless quartz; rock crystal.
  3. noun A lens made of such quartz.
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  • This pebble was an example: a diggle could not understand intricate directions, and would inevitably get lost if it depended on instructions. —  Vale of the Vole
  • The vibrations move away from that center, in all directions, like the ripples in a placid pool of water when a pebble is thrown into it. —  Modern Mechanix
  • Radio waves travel through space in all directions, just as waves of water spread out when a pebble is dropped into it.
  • I have not traded RBS for instnace, because I KNOW that at any time, a pebble could be dropped in the water.
  • JIMMY1660 allow me to love America its about time the pebble was removed. —  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
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  1. Middle English pobble, pibel, pebul, from Old English papol- (as in papolstān, pebblestone).

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  1. Formerly also peeble, pibble; from Middle English *pibble, *pibbil (in pibblestone, pibbilston), pobble, from Anglo-Saxon *papol, *popel, in papol-stān, popel-stān, a pebble-stone. Origin unknown; hardly borrowed, as Skeat suggests, from Latin papula, a pustule, papilla, a pustule, nipple (see papula, papilla). An Icelandic *pöpull, a ball, is cited, but not found.
  2. from pebble, n.
 

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