pebbler

English

Etymology

pebble +‎ -er

Noun

pebbler (plural pebblers)

1. One who collects pebbles.
   • 1815, Thomas Coultas, The Scarborough Guide, page 131:

     This bay has long been the favourite resort of pebblers. The whole coast indeed, more particularly to the south, is strewed with onyxes, moss-agates, and cornelians.

2. One who or that which applies a pebbled surface to something.
   • 1947, Frank Grant Menke, The New Encyclopedia of Sports, page 366:

     The 'pebbler,' accompanied by a player carrying a bucket of warm water, walks backward down the rink, and swings the water-filled sprinkler over his head in a wide, rhythmic arc to throw the water uniformly across the ice, from side to side.

3. (graph theory) One who or that which places pebbles at the vertex of a graph, according to certain rules; see pebble game.