单词 | pebbled |
释义 | pebbledadj. 1. a. Covered, strewn, or heaped with pebbles; pebbly. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > a stone > [adjective] > pebble pebblelOE pebbly1600 pebbled1609 1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets lx. sig. E Like as the waues make towards the pibled shore. View more context for this quotation 1720 J. Gay Dione iii. iii, in Poems II. 481 And..pebbled brook that winds along the dale. 1789 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 493 Ayr gurgling kissed his pebbled shore. 1826 E. Irving Babylon I. ii. 151 The chaffing of its [sc. the sea's] rocky and pebbled bed. 1884 Harper's Mag. Nov. 852/1 The pebbled terraces of the beach. 1951 S. H. Bell December Bride iii. i. 193 Ravara National School..was a one-storyed, whitewashed building, rather like a long cottage, separated from the road by a bald pebbled close. 1992 N.Y. Times 17 July a6/6 Gurzuf and its pebbled beaches are also known as a summer spot for artists. b. Made with or having the appearance of pebble lenses; (of a lens) thick, convex. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > ophthalmology or optometry > aids to defective vision > [adjective] > types of spectacles steel-rimmeda1400 steelbowed1606 young1667 near-sighted1796 trifocal1826 steel-bow1834 pantoscopic1836 window glass1885 bifocal1888 horn-rimmed1894 pebbled1928 thick-lensed1946 single-vision1962 wire-rim1968 wire-frame1977 Lennon1984 1928 J. Joyce Contin. Work in Progress in transition No. 13. 26 He is looking aged with his pebbled eyes. 1959 Listener 5 Mar. 406/2 Eccentric bookworms with pebbled glasses and bulging foreheads. 1978 M. Butterworth X marks Spot 18 Shrewd eyes glittered behind pebbled lenses. 1993 R. Rankin Bk. of Ultimate Truths (BNC) 48 A youthful face, the greater part of which lurked behind the thick pebbled spectacles of the seriously myopic. 2. Of leather: that has been pebbled (pebble v. 3). Also applied to other surfaces having a similar texture. ΚΠ 1876 J. D. McCabe Illustr. Hist. Centennial Exhib. 808 Henry G. Ely & Co., New York, buff, pebbled, glazed, and split leather. 1979 Washington Post (Nexis) 23 Aug. a3 The [dinosaur] eggs are 6 inches long and 4 inches wide and have a black, pebbled exterior. 1991 P. C. Smith Changing your Story 15 When I buy a new notebook Instead of pebbled black cardboard like always I walk off with red leather, ruby and smooth against my palms. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1609 |
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