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pebbling

British  
/ ˈpɛblɪŋ /

noun

  1. curling the act of spraying the rink with drops of hot water to slow down the stone

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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He kept going back, though, and one day curiosity got the better of him when he noticed someone pebbling the ice.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026

On the job, Wuthrich walks about 10 kilometers a day; because he does the texture pebbling, Callan gets in 12 kilometers.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2022

The water for the ice is cleaned of impurities by a multi-tank reverse osmosis system; the water for the pebbling has also been de-ionized.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2022

Then the pebbling process is repeated using a nozzle with a larger hole, and another scrapper nips the top of the pebbles off.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2022

There is no more violent splashing and pebbling, racing, chasing, separating. 

From The Diary of a Goose Girl by Shepperson, Claude A.

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