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cobbles

UK/ˈkɒb.əlz/US/ˈkɒb.əlz/
nounB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,979 of 15,258leans written

Cobbles are a road surface of rounded set stones. A street of cobbles.

They drain well and last for centuries, which is why so many survive. Racing over cobbles is a test of the machine as much as the rider, and it shakes bottles out of their cages.

AlMare · Public domain

Definitions of cobbles

  1. 1nouncobblesA road surface of rounded set stones.B2+

    “Two miles of cobbles decided the whole race.”

cobbles is a surface.

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cobbles in the wild

  • The resultant landform is often a very steep beach composed of rounded cobbles, shingle and occasionally sand.

    Storm beach

  • A rock made predominantly of cobbles is termed a conglomerate.

    Cobble (geology)

  • Granular material can range from very small colloidal particles, through clay, silt, sand, gravel, and cobbles, to boulders.

    Grain size

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

  • cobblestones