pebblestone

noun — 2 senses

pebblestone

noun

Etymology From Middle English pibleston, from Old English papolstān; equivalent to pebble + stone.

1

A pebble.

2

Pebbles collectively.

  • About her necke hung chaines of peble ſtone, / Which lightned by her neck, like Diamonds ſhone.1598, Christopher Marlowe, “First Sestyad”, in Christopher Marlo[w]e, George Chapman, Hero and Leander: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Richard Hawkins: […], published 1629, →OCLC:

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