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Gravel   /grˈævəl/   Listen
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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"Gravel" Quotes from Famous Books



... across the gravel. Her husband skipped nimbly before her into the south verandah, turned a switch, and all ...
— Actions and Reactions • Rudyard Kipling
... acquaintance, Sam, being on duty as porter, admitted him, and, taking him by a winding gravel walk that turned and twisted among groves and parterres, led him up to the house and delivered him into the charge of a black footman, who was at that early hour engaged in ...
— Ishmael - In the Depths • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth
... I shall only die the sooner! Better to wear out than rust out!" and they feel—and so do some of their friends—that they are very noble characters, and accordingly these tragedy queens stalk picturesquely through wet grass when they could quite well keep on the gravel. I hope none of you will develop into tragic heroines. I have no patience when I see girls with perfectly prosperous lives inventing tragedies for themselves. They have no right "to take in vain the sacred name of grief." If there is nothing else to ...
— Stray Thoughts for Girls • Lucy H. M. Soulsby
... night their father died—it was the night Honeybird was born—and, thinking back over it now, they were sure they had heard the incantation that had wrought the spell. They had been waked by a noise, a muttering, and a tramp of feet on the gravel beneath the nursery window. They had been frightened, for Lull was not in the nursery, and when they ran out into the passage to call her they saw their mother standing in a white dress at the top of the stairs and a crowd of strange ...
— The Weans at Rowallan • Kathleen Fitzpatrick
... which was puzzling Birralong. The last man in the district whom they expected to be carried away by the glib tales of nuggets by the bucketful and gravel running two ounces to the dish, was Tony Taylor; still less did they expect that he would leave his selection home, to say nothing of the charms of Birralong and Marmot's verandah, for a wild-cat yarn of travelling fossickers. He was one of the brightest lights in the district, handsome, ...
— Colonial Born - A tale of the Queensland bush • G. Firth Scott


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