 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
gravel
adjective: unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice"
[syn: {grating}, {gravelly}, {rasping}, {raspy}, {rough}]
noun: rock fragments and pebbles [syn: {crushed rock}]
verb
1: cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor
irritations; "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really
bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the
door after she leaves" [syn: {annoy}, {rag}, {get to}, {bother},
{get at}, {irritate}, {rile}, {nark}, {nettle}, {vex},
{chafe}, {devil}]
2: cover with gravel; "We gravelled the driveway"
3: be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I
don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This
question really stuck me" [syn: {perplex}, {vex}, {stick},
{get}, {puzzle}, {mystify}, {baffle}, {beat}, {pose}, {bewilder},
{flummox}, {stupefy}, {nonplus}, {amaze}, {dumbfound}]
[also: {gravelling}, {gravelled}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Gravel \Grav"el\, noun [OF. gravele, akin to F. gr?ve a sandy
shore, strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor. grouan gravel, W.
gro coarse gravel, pebbles, and Skr. gr[=a]van stone.]
1. Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles,
often intermixed with particles of sand.
2. (Med.) A deposit of small calculous concretions in the
kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease
of which they are a symptom.
{Gravel powder}, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Gravel \Grav"el\, verb (used with an object) [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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "gravel":
Tarmac, Tarvia, asphalt, bitumen, bituminous macadam, blacktop,
breccia, brick, cement, chafe, cobble, cobblestone, concrete, curb,
curbing, curbstone, debris, detritus, edgestone, exacerbate, flag,
flagging, flagstone, fret, gall, grain, granule, granulet, grate,
grate on, grit, irritate, kerb, kerbstone, macadam, pavement,
pavestone, paving, paving stone, provoke, rasp, road metal, sand,
set on edge, shingle, stone, tarmacadam, tile, washboard
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