Grav"el , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Graveled (?) or Gravelled; p. pr. &
vb. n. Graveling or
Gravelling.]
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. [Colloq.]
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.
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.
grāvan stone.]
1. Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed
with particles of sand.
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.
Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder.
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