Definition of gravel

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Gravel (v. t.) To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex.

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Bar :: Bar (n.) A bank of sand, gravel, or other matter, esp. at the mouth of a river or harbor, obstructing navigation..
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..
Strale :: Strake (n.) A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder..
Verge :: Verge (n.) A slip of grass adjoining gravel walks, and dividing them from the borders in a parterre..
Fill :: Fill (a.) To make an embankment in, or raise the level of (a low place), with earth or gravel..
Chisley :: Chisley (a.) Having a large admixture of small pebbles or gravel; -- said of a soil.
Gravel :: Gravel (v. t.) To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.
Shingly :: Shingly (a.) Abounding with shingle, or gravel..
Gravel-stone :: Gravel-stone (n.) A pebble, or small fragment of stone; a calculus..
Horseback :: Horseback (n.) An extended ridge of sand, gravel, and bowlders, in a half-stratified condition..
Ballast :: Ballast (v. t.) To fill in, as the bed of a railroad, with gravel, stone, etc., in order to make it firm and solid..
Lithophagous :: Lithophagous (a.) Eating or swallowing stones or gravel, as the ostrich..
Nephrolithic :: nephrolithic (a.) Of or pertaining to gravel, or renal calculi..
Underlie :: Underlie (v. t.) To lie under; to rest beneath; to be situated under; as, a stratum of clay underlies the surface gravel..
Gravelling :: Gravelling (n.) A salmon one or two years old, before it has gone to sea..
Shingle :: Shingle (n.) Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere..
Gravelling :: Gravelling () of Grave.
"arena :: Arena (n.) Sand or gravel in the kidneys..
Caddis :: Caddis (n.) The larva of a caddice fly. These larvae generally live in cylindrical cases, open at each end, and covered externally with pieces of broken shells, gravel, bits of wood, etc. They are a favorite bait with anglers. Called also caddice worm, or caddis worm..
Graveling :: Graveling (n.) Alt. of Gravellin.
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