The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word SHINGLE
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More clues leading to the result SHINGLE
- Hearts set in individual stones
- Little pebbles hard during one run
- Small pebbles fractured leg, bone alongside
- Run round hard pebbles on beach
- Play with English pebbles on the beach
- Alone, crossing hard pebbles
- Sole broken by hard beach stones
- roof tile
- Record-breaking hotel which is at the seaside
- Bank, stony? One requiring injection of cash ultimately
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The straight part
We know that "pebbles on beach" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case pebbles on beach = shingle.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does SHINGLE mean?
SHINGLE noun- A small, thin piece of building material, often with one end thicker than the other, for laying in overlapping rows as a covering for the roof or sides of a building.
- A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
- A small signboard designating a professional office; this may be both a physical signboard or a metaphoric term for a small production company (a production shingle).
- To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
- To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.
- A punitive strap such as a belt.
- (by extension) Any paddle used for corporal punishment.
- To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
- To beat with a shingle.
- Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.