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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
gravel \grav"el\, v. t. imp. p. p. graveledor gravelled;
p. pr. vb. n. graveling or gravelling.
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1. to cover with gravel; as, to gravel a walk.
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2. to run as a ship upon the gravel or beach; to run
aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.
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when we were fallen into a place between two seas,
they graveled the ship. --acts xxvii.
41 rhemish
version.
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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.
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3. to check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex. colloq.
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when you were graveled for lack of matter. --shak.
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the physician was so graveled and amazed withal,
that he had not a word more to say. --sir t.
north.
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4. to hurt or lame a horse by gravel lodged between the
shoe and foot.
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see also:
graveled gravelled graveling gravelling
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