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ˈpebble-stone
Forms: see pebble n. and stone n.
= pebble n. 1.
c1000ælfric Hom. I. 64 Gað to ðære sæ-strande, and feccað me papolstanas. c1000Aldhelm Glosses 1815 (Napier 1900) Lapillulos, i. paruos lapides, popelstanas. 1382Wyclif Prov. xx. 17 And aftir shal be fulfild the mouth of hym with a litil pibbil ston. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 353 Whan oþer wepene failleþ þey [the Irish] haueþ good publestones redy at hond. 1530Palsgr. 259 Puble stone, caillov. 1555Eden Decades 12 Two pybble stones of goulde weighinge an vnce. Ibid., Pypple stones of gold. Ibid. marg., Pipple stones of golde. 1573Twyne æneid x. (1584) P vj b, On tother side, where as the streame of peablestones great store Togither rouled had. 1653Walton Angler iv. 63 Opposed by rugged roots and pibble stones. 1838Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. I. 391/2 The pebble stones..firmly fixed in a matrix of concrete, are..found to answer completely.
fig.1591Shakes. Two Gent. ii. iii. 11 Yet did not this cruell-hearted Curre shedde one teare: he is a stone, a very pibble stone.
b. As a material: = pebble n. 1 b.
1663Gerbier Counsel (1664) 90 Pavement with Pibble-stone, fifteen and eighteen pence the yard, square. |