different between pubble vs pebble

English

Etymology

Perhaps from bubble.

Adjective

pubble (comparative more pubble, superlative most pubble)

1. (Northern England or obsolete) puffed out; pudgy; fat
   • 1567, Thomas Drant, Horace his arte of Poetrie, pistles, and Satyrs, Englished and to the Earle of Ormounte

     Thou shalt me fynde fat and wel fed,
     As pubble as may be.

English

Etymology

From Middle English pibel (also in pibleston), from Old English *papol, *pyppel, *pæbbel (found in Old English popelst?n, papolst?n (“pebble-stone”), pyppelr?pi? (“pebble-stream”)), of unknown origin. Compare Albanian popël.(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?p?b.?l/
• Rhymes: -?b?l

Noun

pebble (countable and uncountable, plural pebbles)

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

   • Then let the pebbles on the hungry beach
     Fillip the stars;

   • And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge;
     As children gathering pebbles on the shore.

2. (geology) A particle from 4 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
3. (curling) A small droplet of water intentionally sprayed on the ice that cause irregularities on the surface.
4. Transparent and colourless rock crystal.

   Brazilian pebble

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

   Synonyms: cube powder, prismatic powder

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Verb

pebble (third-person singular simple present pebbles, present participle pebbling, simple past and past participle pebbled)

1. (transitive) To pave with pebbles.
2. (transitive, curling) To deposit water droplets on the ice.

   to pebble the ice between games

3. (transitive) To give (leather) a rough appearance with small rounded prominences.
4. (transitive, graph theory) To place a pebble at (a vertex of a graph) according to certain rules; see pebble game.

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