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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]:
graveled
adj 1: made of packed earth or gravel; "a dirt road" [syn: {dirt},
{gravel}]
2: (of roads) leveled and drained but not paved [syn: {graded}]
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