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noun

Gravel n.

1.

Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.

2.

(Med.) A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom.

Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder.

verb

Gravel v. t. (past & past part. graveled or gravelled; pres. part. graveling or gravelling)

1.

To cover with gravel; as, to gravel a walk.

2.

To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand. "When we were fallen into a place between two seas, they graveled the ship." "Willam the Conqueror... chanced as his arrival to be graveled; and one of his feet stuck so fast in the sand that he fell to the ground."

3.

To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex. (Colloq.) "When you were graveled for lack of matter." "The physician was so graveled and amazed withal, that he had not a word more to say."

4.

To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gravel" Quotes from Famous Books

... and deliberation, the young officer proceeded along a path that sometimes sunk between two broken black banks of moss earth, sometimes crossed narrow but deep ravines filled with a consistence between mud and water, and sometimes along heaps of gravel and stones, which had been swept together when some torrent or water-spout from the neighbouring hills overflowed the marshy ground below. He began to ponder how a horseman could make his way through such broken ground; the ...

— Guy Mannering • Sir Walter Scott

... found on the surface of the plain, but is covered up by two layers. The uppermost, known technically as chuca, is of a friable nature, and consists of sand and gypsum; while the lower, the costra, is a rocky conglomerate of clay, gravel, and fragments of felspar. The caliche varies in thickness from a few inches to 10 or 12 feet, and rests on a soft stratum of ...

— Manures and the principles of manuring • Charles Morton Aikman

... and Miss Ingram darted forwards from her sofa: the others, too, looked up from their several occupations; for at the same time a crunching of wheels and a splashing tramp of horse-hoofs became audible on the wet gravel. ...

— Jane Eyre - an Autobiography • Charlotte Bronte

... and so great was his agony, even at this early period, that as they were crossing the little river, he longed to throw himself into the water to be free from misery. But the sin attached to such an act alone prevented. They had then eight miles to walk. The sand and gravel were like burning coals to the feet of the prisoners, which soon became perfectly destitute of skin; and in this wretched state they were goaded on by their unfeeling drivers. Mr. J.'s debilitated state, in consequence of fever, and having taken no food that morning, rendered him less capable ...

— Fox's Book of Martyrs - Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant - Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs • John Fox

... the courtyard of the Villa and saw the lawn and gravel sweep full of helmeted soldiers in green-grey uniform, their bodies hung with equipment—bags, great-coats, rolled-up blankets, trench spades, cartridge bandoliers. Vivie jumped down quickly, said to her mother in ...

— Mrs. Warren's Daughter - A Story of the Woman's Movement • Sir Harry Johnston

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