Gravel
Gravel , noun
[Old French gravele, akin to French gr?ve a sandy shore, strand; of Celtic origin; compare Armor. grouan gravel, Welsh gro coarse gravel, pebbles, and Sanskrit grāvan stone.]
1.
Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.
2.
(Medicine) A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom.
Collocations (1)
Gravel powder , a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder.
Gravel , transitive verb
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. [Colloquial]
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.