Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In leather manufacturing, a special kind of graining, in which an artificially roughened or indented surface on the grain side of leather is produced by working upon that side with a roller having a pattern which is the reverse of the pattern to be impressed on the leather.
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- verb Present participle of
pebble . - noun The
placing ofpebbles in any of severalboard games
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Examples
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He says he learned how to make curling ice — a process known as pebbling because it involves forming small bumps on the surface — by apprenticing for six years in Canada.
Curling Industry Benefits From New Wave of Players Sarah E. Needleman 2010
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This room is an ante - chamber of your own pebbling brain matter.
Untitled (Continued) 2010
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The long bones of its arms shattered, pebbling its hairless skin outward with thousands of fragments sent flying by the force of the break.
THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD Liane Merciel 2010
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She presses her body into him again, feels her nipples pebbling against his chest and is sure from the sound he makes he can also feel it through the thin material of his dress shirt.
Fic Update amberfocus 2008
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Her suddenly pebbling nipples, the now aching apex of her thighs.
Ecstasy in Darkness Gena Showalter 2010
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Her suddenly pebbling nipples, the now aching apex of her thighs.
Ecstasy in Darkness Gena Showalter 2010
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Well, particularly, they peddle the absolute blather and pebbling (ph) that things are just ducky.
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My mother holds my face up to the light, turns it, sighing at the pimples pebbling my cheek.
Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume Jennifer O'Connell 2007
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My mother holds my face up to the light, turns it, sighing at the pimples pebbling my cheek.
Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume Jennifer O'Connell 2007
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'Will you be my wife, Helen Huddleson?' the sweat drops pebbling his brow as he anxiously awaited her reply.
Archive 2006-09-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2006
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