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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



... desert of Sahara (Zahra); it has been observed, that in this continent, towards the east, savannahs and pastures are found, as in Arabia, situated in the midst of naked and barren tracts. It is these deserts, covered with gravel and destitute of plants, which are almost entirely wanting in the New World. I saw them only in that part of Peru, between Amotape and Coquimbo, on the shores of the Pacific. These are called by ...
— Equinoctial Regions of America V2 • Alexander von Humboldt

... Harvester sat in the hollow worn in the hewed log stoop by the feet of his father and mother and his own sturdier tread, and rested his head against the casing of the cabin door when he gave the command. The tip of the dog's nose touched the gravel between his paws as he crouched flat on earth, with beautiful eyes steadily watching the master, but he did not ...
— The Harvester • Gene Stratton Porter

... her hand to her brother, and stood watching him until the motor was hidden behind the trees and a bend in a long avenue, and then turned back to the house, her head bent towards the gravel-path, the pebbles of which she kicked with her feet, to the distinct disapproval of the young gardener who had just rolled it, and viewed this destruction of ...
— Sarah's School Friend • May Baldwin

... with slender, willow-trees, many of them broken off, shot, torn, twisted, and splintered. Dead soldiers lay about under the smoke, their dirty shirts or naked skin visible between jacket and belt; to the left on a sparsely wooded elevation, the slope of which was scarred, showing dry red sand and gravel, a gun stood, firing obliquely across the gully into the woods. Long, wavering, irregular rings of smoke shot out, remaining intact and floating like the rings from a smoker's pipe, until another rush and ...
— Ailsa Paige • Robert W. Chambers

... wheels was heard upon the gravel below, and brushing away her tears, the little girl started to her feet and ran over ...
— Naughty Miss Bunny - A Story for Little Children • Clara Mulholland


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