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† ˈpreble Obs.
Also 6 prebill.
[Origin obscure: it has been compared with pebble.]
Gravel.
1541Acts Privy Council (1837) VII. 113 To view the workes at Dover and especially a certain barre of prebill dryven in..to the mouth of the herborough. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. i. 17 b, Varro counsels you to looke whether there be in the land eyther Stone, Marble, Sande, Grauell,..Claye, Preble [glarea], or Carbuncle. |