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PEBBLES |
Small stones |
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CHAT |
Small stones with ore. |
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MICROLITHIC |
Formed of small stones. |
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SCREE |
Small loose stones screened without Flanders |
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CATAPULT |
A forked stick with elastic band for throwing small
stones, etc. |
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STONEBRASH |
A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken
rock; brash. |
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JACKSTONE |
A game played with five small stones or pieces of metal.
See 6th Chuck. |
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GRAVEL |
Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles,
often intermixed with particles of sand. |
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RAGWORK |
A kind of rubblework. In the United States, any rubblework
of thin and small stones. |
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SEA SNAIL |
A small fish of the genus Liparis, having a ventral
sucker. It lives among stones and seaweeds. |
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HYDRA |
Any small fresh-water hydroid of the genus Hydra, usually
found attached to sticks, stones, etc., by a basal sucker. |
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MACADAMIZE |
To cover, as a road, or street, with small, broken
stones, so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface. |
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GURGLE |
To run or flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current, as
water from a bottle, or a small stream among pebbles or stones. |
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PURL |
To run swiftly round, as a small stream flowing among
stones or other obstructions; to eddy; also, to make a murmuring sound,
as water does in running over or through obstructions. |
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TURNSTONE |
...y are so called from their
habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and other
aquatic animals. Called also brant bird, sand runner... |
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LAMMERGEIER |
...lack. It
feeds partly on carrion and partly on small animals, which it kills. It
has the habit of carrying tortoises and marrow bones to a great... |