Gravel — Defs

01 n. Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.

1.
Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.
2.
A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom.(Med.)

Phrases & compounds

Gravel powder — a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder.

02 v. t. To cover with gravel; as, to gravel a walk.

imp. & p. p. Graveled; p. pr. & vb. n. Graveling

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.