| 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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| 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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