PEBBLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pebbly mean? 

• PEBBLY (adjective)
  The adjective PEBBLY has 1 sense:

1. abounding in small stones

  Familiarity information: PEBBLY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEBBLY (adjective)

Comparative: pebblier   
Superlative: pebbliest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Abounding in small stones

Synonyms:

gravelly; pebbly; shingly

Context example:

landed at a shingly little beach

Similar:

rough; unsmooth (having or caused by an irregular surface)

Derivation:

pebble (a small smooth rounded rock)

 Context examples 

There was now visible a house or houses—for the building spread far—with many windows, and lights burning in some; we went up a broad pebbly path, splashing wet, and were admitted at a door; then the servant led me through a passage into a room with a fire, where she left me alone.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The study confirms that every time we gaze through a window, walk down the sidewalk or set foot on a pebbly beach, we are interacting with a material made by exploding stars that burned billions of years ago.

(Exploding Stars Make Key Ingredient in Sand, Glass, NASA)

Occasional brooks with pebbly bottoms and fern-draped banks gurgled down the shallow gorges in the hill, and offered good camping-grounds every evening on the banks of some rock-studded pool, where swarms of little blue-backed fish, about the size and shape of English trout, gave us a delicious supper.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They clung to the purple moors behind and around their dwelling—to the hollow vale into which the pebbly bridle-path leading from their gate descended, and which wound between fern-banks first, and then amongst a few of the wildest little pasture-fields that ever bordered a wilderness of heath, or gave sustenance to a flock of grey moorland sheep, with their little mossy- faced lambs:—they clung to this scene, I say, with a perfect enthusiasm of attachment.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I trode on an edging of turf that the crackle of the pebbly gravel might not betray me: he was standing among the beds at a yard or two distant from where I had to pass; the moth apparently engaged him.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)