3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gravel \Grav"el\, n. [OF. gravele, akin to F. gr?ve a sandy
shore, strand; of Celtic origin; cf Armor. grouan gravel, W.
gro coarse gravel, pebbles, and Skr. gr[=a]van stone.]
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gravel \Grav"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Graveled}or {Gravelled};
p. pr & vb n. {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. --Acts xxvii.
41 (Rhemish
version).
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. --Camden.
3. To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex. [Colloq.]
When you were graveled for lack of matter. --Shak.
The physician was so graveled and amazed withal,
that he had not a word more to say --Sir T.
North.
4. To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the
shoe and foot.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
gravel
adj 1: made of packed earth or gravel; "a dirt road" [syn: {dirt},
{graveled}]
2: unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice"
[syn: {grating}, {gravelly}, {rasping}, {raspy}, {rough}]
n : rock fragments and pebbles [syn: {crushed rock}]
v 1: cause annoyance in disturb, esp. by minor irritations:
"Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It
irritates me that she never closes the door after she
leaves" [syn: {annoy}, {rag}, {get to}, {bother}, {get
at}, {irritate}, {rile}, {nark}, {nettle}, {vex}, {devil}]
2: cover with gravel, as of a road
3: be a mystery or bewildering to: "This beats me!" "Got me--I
don't know the answer!" [syn: {perplex}, {get}, {puzzle},
{mystify}, {baffle}, {beat}, {bewilder}, {flummox}, {stupefy},
{stupify}, {nonplus}, {amaze}, {dumbfound}, {trounce}]
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