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Words like gravel and ripck aren't just nouns they come with an implied definition of size. Without being to exact:
Pebble - A chunk of stone which is ore or less marble sized
Stone - A chunk of stone in the size range of tennis balls, Oranges or your fist
Rock - A chunk of stone big enough o make you think about getting a friend to help you lift it.
Boulder - A chunk of rock which stays where it is unless you have heavy equipment


Based on this, as a piece of gravel is about the size of a marble (you can hold several pieces of gravel once) it is a pebble, not a rock. Both may be ,ade of the same type of stone and a hamer can change a rock into pebbles.

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