pebly

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pebly (comparative more pebly, superlative most pebly)

  1. Obsolete form of pebbly.
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
      In the midst of the grove was a fine lawn, sloping down towards the house, near the summit of which rose a plentiful spring, [] tumbling in a natural fall over the broken and mossy stones till it came to the bottom of the rock, then running off in a pebly channel []

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