Gravelly

4 definitions found

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

  Gravelly \Grav"el*ly\, a.
     Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel; as, a gravelly
     soil.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  gravelly
       adj 1: abounding in small stones; "landed at a shingly little
              beach" [syn: {pebbly}, {shingly}]
       2: unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice"
          [syn: {grating}, {gravel}, {rasping}, {raspy}, {rough}]

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

  55 Moby Thesaurus words for "gravelly":
     arenaceous, arenarious, breccial, brecciated, corrugated, cragged,
     craggy, crinkled, crumpled, crystal, crystalline, grainy, granular,
     granulate, granulated, gritty, harsh, ironbound, jagged, jaggy,
     lapideous, lithoid, lithoidal, monolithic, pebbled, pebbly,
     porphyritic, ragged, rock-ribbed, rock-strewn, rock-studded,
     rockbound, rocklike, rocky, rugged, rugose, rugous, sabulous,
     sandy, saw-toothed, sawtooth, scragged, scraggly, scraggy, serrate,
     serrated, shingled, shingly, snagged, snaggled, snaggy, stonelike,
     stony, trachytic, wrinkled
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Gravelly, AR
    Zip code(s): 72838