ˈpebble-stone
Forms: see pebble n. and stone n.
= pebble n. 1.
| c 1000 ælfric Hom. I. 64 Gað to ðære sæ-strande, and feccað me papolstanas. c 1000 Aldhelm Glosses 1815 (Napier 1900) Lapillulos, i. paruos lapides, popelstanas. 1382 Wyclif Prov. xx. 17 And aftir shal be fulfild the mouth of hym with a litil pibbil ston. 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 353 Whan oþer wepene failleþ þey [the Irish] haueþ good publestones redy at hond. 1530 Palsgr. 259 Puble stone, caillov. 1555 Eden Decades 12 Two pybble stones of goulde weighinge an vnce. Ibid., Pypple stones of gold. Ibid. marg., Pipple stones of golde. 1573 Twyne æneid x. (1584) P vj b, On tother side, where as the streame of peablestones great store Togither rouled had. 1653 Walton Angler iv. 63 Opposed by rugged roots and pibble stones. 1838 Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. I. 391/2 The pebble stones..firmly fixed in a matrix of concrete, are..found to answer completely. |
| fig. 1591 Shakes. Two Gent. ii. iii. 11 Yet did not this cruell-hearted Curre shedde one teare: he is a stone, a very pibble stone. |
b. As a material:
= pebble n. 1 b.
| 1663 Gerbier Counsel (1664) 90 Pavement with Pibble-stone, fifteen and eighteen pence the yard, square. |