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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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     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.
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     {Gravel powder}, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Gravel \Grav"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Graveled}or {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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  gravel
       adj : 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, especially 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},
            {chafe}, {devil}]
       2: cover with gravel; "We gravelled the driveway"
       3: be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I
          don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This
          question really stuck me" [syn: {perplex}, {vex}, {stick},
           {get}, {puzzle}, {mystify}, {baffle}, {beat}, {pose}, {bewilder},
           {flummox}, {stupefy}, {nonplus}, {amaze}, {dumbfound}]
       [also: {gravelling}, {gravelled}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  49 Moby Thesaurus words for "gravel":
     Tarmac, Tarvia, asphalt, bitumen, bituminous macadam, blacktop,
     breccia, brick, cement, chafe, cobble, cobblestone, concrete, curb,
     curbing, curbstone, debris, detritus, edgestone, exacerbate, flag,
     flagging, flagstone, fret, gall, grain, granule, granulet, grate,
     grate on, grit, irritate, kerb, kerbstone, macadam, pavement,
     pavestone, paving, paving stone, provoke, rasp, road metal, sand,
     set on edge, shingle, stone, tarmacadam, tile, washboard
  
  

















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