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Riddle :: Riddle (n.) A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand..

Crag :: Crag (n.) A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Tertiary age..

Gravel :: Gravel (n.) Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand..

Gravelled :: Gravelled () of Grave.

Gravelling :: Gravelling (n.) A salmon one or two years old, before it has gone to sea..

Eschar :: Eschar (n.) In Ireland, one of the continuous mounds or ridges of gravelly and sandy drift which extend for many miles over the surface of the country. Similar ridges in Scotland are called kames or kams..

Deposit :: Deposit (v. t.) That which is deposited, or laid or thrown down; as, a deposit in a flue; especially, matter precipitated from a solution (as the siliceous deposits of hot springs), or that which is mechanically deposited (as the mud, gravel, etc., deposits of a river)..

Parterre :: Parterre (n.) An ornamental and diversified arrangement of beds or plots, in which flowers are cultivated, with intervening spaces of gravel or turf for walking on..

Calculous :: Calculous (a.) Caused, or characterized, by the presence of a calculus or calculi; a, a calculous disorder; affected with gravel or stone; as, a calculous person..

Gravel-stone :: Gravel-stone (n.) A pebble, or small fragment of stone; a calculus..

Graveled :: Graveled (imp. & p. p.) of Grave.

Ballast :: Ballast (a.) Gravel, broken stone, etc., laid in the bed of a railroad to make it firm and solid..

Graveling :: Graveling (n.) Alt. of Gravellin.

Tabby :: Tabby (n.) A mixture of lime with shells, gravel, or stones, in equal proportions, with an equal proportion of water. When dry, this becomes as hard as rock..

Diluvium :: Diluvium (n.) A deposit of superficial loam, sand, gravel, stones, etc., caused by former action of flowing waters, or the melting of glacial ice..

Embankment :: Embankment (n.) A structure of earth, gravel, etc., raised to prevent water from overflowing a level tract of country, to retain water in a reservoir, or to carry a roadway, etc..

Ballast :: Ballast (a.) The larger solids, as broken stone or gravel, used in making concrete..

Pan :: Pan (v. i.) To yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; -- usually with out; as, the gravel panned out richly..

Strale :: Strake (n.) A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder..

Alluvium :: Alluvium (n.) Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas..

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