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English Dictionary: gravelling by the DICT Development Group
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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.
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