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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
PEBBLE, PEBBLESTONEnoun
A stone distinct from flints, being not in layers, but in one homogeneous mass, though sometimes of many colours. Popularly a small stone.
Etymology: pæbolstana , Saxon.
Through the midst of it ran a sweet brook, which did both hold the eye open with her azure streams, and yet seek to close the eye with the purling noise it made upon the pebblestones it ran over. Philip Sidney, b. i.
The bishop and the duke of Glo’ster’s men,
Forbidden late to carry any weapon,
Have fill’d their pockets full of pebblestones. William Shakespeare.Suddenly a file of boys deliver’d such a shower of pebbles loose shot, that I was fain to draw mine honour in. William Shakespeare.
You may see pebbles gathered together, and a crust of cement between them, as hard as the pebbles. Francis Bacon.
Collecting toys,
As children gath’ring pebbles on the shore. John Milton.Providence permitted not the strength of the earth to spend itself in base gravel and pebbles instead of quarries of stones. Henry More, Antidote against Atheism.
Winds murmur’d through the leaves your long delay;
And fountains o’er the pebbles chid your stay. Dryden.Another body, that hath only the resemblance of an ordinary pebble, shall yield a metallic and valuable matter. John Woodward.
Webster Dictionary
Pebblestone
a pebble; also, pebbles collectively
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of pebblestone in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of pebblestone in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
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