Word Finder - pebbles

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A small stone, especially one rounded by the action of water.

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A particle from 4 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.

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A small droplet of water intentionally sprayed on the ice that cause irregularities on the surface.

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Transparent and colourless rock crystal.

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Brazilian pebble

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A form of slow-burning gunpowder in large cubical grains.

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• cube powder
• prismatic powder

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To pave with pebbles.

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To deposit water droplets on the ice.

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to pebble the ice between games

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To give (leather) a rough appearance with small rounded prominences.

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To place a pebble at (a vertex of a graph) according to certain rules; see pebble game.

They exploded into pebbles and dust.

She knelt on the beach area consisting of a stretch of pebbles and dirt.

Cover the screen with rocks and pebbles, careful to select stones that won't fall between the screening grid.

Only David ventured to respond, and armed with a sling and pebbles he overcame Goliath.

He took a passionate delight in the pursuit of knowledge from his very infancy, and is reported to have worked out long arithmetical sums by means of pebbles and biscuit crumbs before he knew the figures.

From the scree slope below the quarry face collect 10 loose pebbles.

Paint some rocks and pebbles gold and hide them in the sandbox.

To anchor your flower in place opt for florist white pebbles, clear glass marbles or multi-faceted crystal balls.

Put enough sand or pebbles to cover an inch high over the bottom of the bowl.

The overall effect is one of the water tumbled around the sides of the urn and falling into the gravel, pebbles and stones.

This consisted of a very dark gray clayey silt with inclusions of rubble, gravel and pebbles.

Create the vase and add the blooms to the vase, securing the stems to the bottom of the vase with mini pebbles or glass beads.

He accelerated amid a spray of pebbles as he raced after the receding tail lights far up the road.

Avoid clear vases - While clear vases may be tempting to show off the pebbles or stones you have chosen to add stability to your lucky bamboo, they should be avoided.

Decorative accents such as pebbles, beads, flowers, or other details can easily be added.

Floating candles are often combined with other items, for instance petals, flowers, glass beads, colored sand or pebbles.

The first successful Tod's item turned out to be the JP Tod's driving shoes that featured 133 pebbles along the soles.

Whether the dress whites of An Officer and a Gentleman or the engineer blues of the Sand Pebbles, the uniform of the U.S. Navy has been the object of admiration as well as tradition for many people around the world.

She invented a deity of her own, a mysterious Corambe, half pagan and half Christian, and like Goethe erected to him a rustic altar of the greenest grass, the softest moss and the brightest pebbles.

She stepped over it, slipped on pebbles, and dropped with a gasp as pain slammed through her knees.

Many localities in India yield amethyst; and it is found also in Ceylon, chiefly as pebbles.

There is a considerable export of quartz crystal, commercially known as "Brazilian pebbles," used in optical work.

The conglomerates consist almost entirely of pebbles of quartz set in a hard 2 At the Standerton gauge on the Vaal in 1905-1906, a year of extreme drought, the total flow was 8,017,000,000 cub.

They had, besides, the lance, the club, sometimes studded with pebbles, and the javelin, and they seem to have known the shield.

Such changes seem, however, to have been very rapidly accomplished, as pebbles of completely formed coal are commonly found in the sandstones and coarser sedimentary strata alternating with the coal seams in many coalfields.

The most active operations are carried on in Florida, where the phosphate was first worked in 1887 in the form of pebbles in the gravels of Peace River.

Certain forms of popular divination were, however, under his patronage, notably the world-wide process of divination by pebbles (0pcai).

The middle series of the Lower Tertiaries, known as the Woolwich and Reading beds, rests either on the Thanet beds or on chalk, and consists chiefly of irregular alternations of clay and sand of very various colours, the former often containing estuarine and oyster shells and the latter flint pebbles.

They consist chiefly of flint pebbles or of lightcoloured quartzose sand, the thickness being from 20 to 30 ft, and.

The nest, in which four eggs are laid with their pointed ends meeting in its centre (as is usual among Limicoline birds), is seldom far from the water's edge, and the eggs, as well as the newly-hatched and down-covered young, closely resemble the surrounding pebbles.

Inasmuch, however, as the floor on which the overlapping strata rest is, like the rest of the Laurentian and Superior Oldland, a worn-down mountain region, and as the lowest member of the sedimentary series usually contains pebbles of the oldiand rocks, the better interpretation of the relation between the two is that the visible oldiand area of to-day is but a small part of the primeval continent, the remainder of which is still buried under the Palaeozoic cover; and that the visible oldiand, far from being the first part of the continent to rise from the primeval ocean, was the last part of the primeval continent to sink under the advancing Palaeozoic seas.

They occur, with many other gem-stones, as pebbles or rolled crystals in alluvial deposits of sand and gravel; the gem-gravel being known locally as illam.

P. Protogine connexion, that the pebbles of the Swiss Molasse are not generally such as would be derived from the neighbouring mountains, but resemble the rocks of the Eastern Alps.

The other minerals found in the concentrates are pebbles and fragments of pyrope, zircon, cyanite, chrome-diopside, enstatite, a green pyroxene, mica, ilmenite, magnetite, chromite, hornblende, olivine, barytes, calcite and pyrites.

African locality must be mentioned.; considerable finds were reported in 1905 and 1906 from gravels at Somabula near Gwelo in Rhodesia where the diamond is associated with chrysoberyl, corundum (both sapphire and ruby), topaz, garnet, ilmenite, staurolite, rutile, with pebbles of quartz, granite, vIII.

Reels were also commonly used for net making, of pottery (108) or even pebbles (1o9)withagroove chipped around.

The silica was needed quite pure from iron, in order to get the rich blues, and was obtained from calcined quartz pebbles; ordinary sand will only make a green frit.

A causeway of boulders and pebbles, thrown up by the sea and passable at low tide, unites Marazion with the insular St Michael's Mount (q.v.).

At a Friday service in the great mosque `Amr was insulted and pelted with pebbles.

One of the audience, with a contemptuous remark, took a handful of pebbles to pelt him with.

The Phoenicians, as was only to be expected of those traders and artisans of the ancient world, appear to have adopted both the cylinder of Assyria and the scarab of Egypt as have survived the numerous engraved stones or g pebbles, technically called gems, which served as matrices and in most instances were undoubtedly mounted as finger-rings or were furnished with swivels.

He was curious to observe how far from the parent rock any pebbles could be found.

The kit consists of reservoir pot, inner pot, exterior air pump, clay pebbles, delivery tubes and full instructions.

Much rarer are pebbles of porphyry of a type that can be matched in the Permian breccia of Dawlish.

She lightly burnishes all her work giving a matt finish that is reminiscent of the pebbles found on the beach.

He's out there on a bay surrounded by towering cliffs, striking two pebbles together.

Above is [4033] a friable silty loam (2.5yr 2.5/3 very dusky red) containing large pebbles.

They were a blurred backdrop to the rhythmic slapping of the water, the low growl of the pebbles.

Filled with [4195] a friable sandy loam (10yr 4/6 dark yellow brown) with various sized pebbles.

Filled with [4171] loose/friable sandy loam (2.5yr 4/6 dark red) with 30% pebbles.