Graveled

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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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