| gravel | 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." (Acts xxvii. 41 (Rhemish version)) "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) 3. To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex. "When you were graveled for lack of matter." (Shak) "The physician was so graveled and amazed withal, that he had not a word more to say." (Sir T. North) 4. To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot. Origin: Graveled or Gravelled; Graveling or Gravelling. 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. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. Origin: 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. Gravan stone. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| gravelling | <zoology> A salmon one or two years old, before it has gone to sea. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| spawning gravel | Sorted, clean gravel patches of a size appropriate for the needs of resident or anadromous fish. (05 Dec 1998) |
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annoy: 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" cover with gravel; "We gravelled the driveway" rock fragments and pebbles perplex: 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" grating: unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice"
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Gravel is rock that is of a certain size range. In geology, gravel is any loose rock that is at least two millimeters in its largest dimension (about 1/12 of an inch), and no more than 75 millimeters (about 3 inches). Sometimes gravel is restricted to rock in the 2-4 millimeter range, with pebble being reserved for rock 4-75 millimeters (some say 64 millimeters). The next smaller size class in geology is sand, which is 0.02 mm to 2 mm in size. ...
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Rounded particles coarser than 2 mm in diameter. (See page(s) 124)
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particles of rock or sediment more than 2 mm in diameter. See sand, silt, clay.
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a piece of rock that measures between 0.078 and 0.629 inches (0.2 ?1.6 cm) in diameter; gravel is larger than sand and smaller than a pebble
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| gravel | rock fragments and pebbles |
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| gravel | be a mystery or bewildering to |
| gravel | cover with gravel, as of a road |
| gravel | cause annoyance in |
| gravel | unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound |
| gravel | made of packed earth or gravel |
| gravel | a quarry for gravel |
| gravel | (of roads) leveled and drained but not paved |
| gravel | made of packed earth or gravel |
| gravel | unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound |
| gravel | abounding in small stones |
| gravel | perennial herb with yellow flowers |
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