pebble

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A small stone, especially one rounded by the action of water.

   Then let the pebbles on the hungry beach Fillip the stars;

2. 2
   noun

   Transparent and colourless rock crystal.

   Brazilian pebble

3. 3
   noun

   A small piece of crack cocaine.

   You ain't got your Glock for the summer / And you ain't gonna pop for your gunner / You ain't in the whip with them pebbles (Nah) / You ain't on the strip with the rebels (Nah)

4. 4
   verb

   To deposit water droplets on the ice.

   to pebble the ice between games

5. 5
   noun

   a small smooth rounded rock

6. 6
   noun

   A particle from 4 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.

7. 7
   noun

   A small droplet of water intentionally sprayed on the ice that cause irregularities on the surface.

8. 8
   noun

   A form of slow-burning gunpowder in large cubical grains.

Etymology

From Middle English pibel (also in pibleston), from Old English papolstān (“pebble-stone”), from Old English *papol, *pyppel, *pæbbel of unknown origin + Old English stān. Compare Albanian popël.