Definition of gravel

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Gravel (v. t.) To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.

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Gravel :: Gravel (v. t.) To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.
Strale :: Strake (n.) A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder..
Gravelling :: Gravelling (n.) A salmon one or two years old, before it has gone to sea..
Gravelly :: Gravelly (a.) Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel; as, a gravelly soil..
Screen :: Screen (n.) A long, coarse riddle or sieve, sometimes a revolving perforated cylinder, used to separate the coarser from the finer parts, as of coal, sand, gravel, and the like..
Soberly :: Soberly (adv.) In a sober manner; temperately; cooly; calmly; gravely; seriously.
Ratchel :: Ratchel (n.) Gravelly stone.
Concrete :: Concrete (n.) A mixture of gravel, pebbles, or broken stone with cement or with tar, etc., used for sidewalks, roadways, foundations, etc., and esp. for submarine structures..
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..
Earth :: Earth (n.) The softer inorganic matter composing part of the surface of the globe, in distinction from the firm rock; soil of all kinds, including gravel, clay, loam, and the like; sometimes, soil favorable to the growth of plants; the visible surface of the globe; the ground; as, loose earth; rich earth..
Pit :: Pit (n.) A large hole in the ground from which material is dug or quarried; as, a stone pit; a gravel pit; or in which material is made by burning; as, a lime pit; a charcoal pit..
Growan :: Growan (n.) A decomposed granite, forming a mass of gravel, as in tin lodes in Cornwall..
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..
Ballast :: Ballast (a.) Gravel, broken stone, etc., laid in the bed of a railroad to make it firm and solid..
Chessil :: Chessil (n.) Gravel or pebbles.
Gromwell :: Gromwell (n.) A plant of the genus Lithospermum (L. arvense), anciently used, because of its stony pericarp, in the cure of gravel. The German gromwell is the Stellera..
Deeply :: Deeply (adv.) Gravely; with low or deep tone; as, a deeply toned instrument..
Gravelling :: Gravelling () of Grave.
Hopperings :: Hopperings (n.) Gravel retaining in the hopper of a cradle.
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..
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