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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of pebble.

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Examples

  • I do tend to think the 2 party system gums up the works too much and distracts from "the willo 'the peeble".

    To Hoard or Not to Hoard 2008

  • Some peeble clame ders a kitteh to blame..bud I no iz my own dam falt.

    U foun’ me a corm - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • You are happy because you ex will have to babysit your kid who swallowed a peeble when you had her?

    ne pas avaler 2006

  • She would then be reassured that every effort had been made to find the peeble.

    ne pas avaler 2006

  • There, after we had gotten your goods on land, with much labour and strength of men, as also windlesses deuised and made, we haled your barke ouer a barre of beach or peeble stones into a small Riuer, sending your ships apparell with other things to an house hired in

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • A peeble (q.v.) which is larger that a belper (q.v.)

    The Meaning of Liff Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1983

  • "There is no white anything in your city; no white window-curtains, no white house, no white peeble!"

    The Turmoil 1915

  • "I dinna ken muckle about the law," answered Mrs. Howden; "but I ken, when we had a king, and a chancellor, and parliament men o 'our ain, we could aye peeble them wi' stanes when they werena gude bairns -- But naebody's nails can reach the length o 'Lunnon."

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801

  • "I dinna ken muckle about the law," answered Mrs. Howden; "but I ken, when we had a king, and a chancellor, and parliament men o 'our ain, we could aye peeble them wi' stanes when they werena gude bairns -- But naebody's nails can reach the length o 'Lunnon."

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • There, after we had gotten your goods on land, with much labour and strength of men, as also windlesses deuised and made, we haled your barke ouer a barre of beach or peeble stones into a small Riuer, sending your ships apparell with other things to an house hired in a village thereby.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 Richard Hakluyt 1584

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