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pebbled, a.|ˈpɛb(ə)ld|
1. a. [f. pebble n. + -ed2.] Covered, strewn, or heaped with pebbles; pebbly. (Chiefly poetic.)
c1600Shakes. Sonn. lx, Like as the waues make towards the pibled shore. 1720Gay Dione iii. iii, Each..pebbled brook that winds along the dale. 1884Harper's Mag. Nov. 852/1 The pebbled terraces of the beach.
b. Of spectacles, etc.: made with or having the appearance of pebble lenses. Also fig.
1939Joyce Finnegans Wake 463 He is looking aged with his pebbled eyes. 1959Listener 5 Mar. 406/2 Eccentric bookworms with pebbled glasses and bulging foreheads. 1969R. Petrie Despatch of Dove i. 10 He watched minutely from behind thick-pebbled lenses. 1978M. Butterworth X marks Spot 18 Shrewd eyes glittered behind pebbled lenses.
2. [f. pebble v. + -ed1.] Of leather: Treated by the process called pebbling: see pebble v. 3. |