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pebble a. a transparent colourless variety of rock crystal, used for making certain lenses b. such a lens pebble [′peb·əl] (geology) A clast, larger than a granule and smaller than a cobble, having a diameter in the range of 0.16-2.6 inches (4-64 millimeters). Also known as pebblestone. (mineralogy)
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Then a thought came to him, and he took a pebble and dropped it into the Pitcher. He kicked a small pebble that lay convenient to his foot. This so frightened his father and mother that in order to comfort them a Fairy, who happened to be present at the time, produced a little pebble which she told them to keep for the Prince till he grew up, as by putting it in his mouth he would become invisible, as long as he did not try to speak, for if he did the stone would lose all its virtue. |
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