English Dictionary: gravelling | by the DICT Development Group |
3 results for gravelling | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Gravel \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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Graveling \Grav"el*ing\, or Gravelling \Grav"el*ling\, n. 1. The act of covering with gravel. 2. A layer or coating of gravel (on a path, etc.). | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Graveling \Grav"el*ing\, or Gravelling \Grav"el*ling\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A salmon one or two years old, before it has gone to sea. |