gravel
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cycling
geography
geology
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
sports
Etymology: From Middle English gravel, grauel, from Old French gravele, diminutive of grave (“gravel, seashore”), from Medieval Latin grava, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *grāwā (“gravel, pebbles”) (compare Breton groa, Cornish grow, Welsh gro), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰroh₁weh₂, from *gʰreh₁w- (“to grind”). Compare also Old English græfa (“coal”).
Inflected forms:
form: gravels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gravels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: graveling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: gravelling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: graveled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: graveled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: gravelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: gravelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: Small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railways, and as ballast.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A type or grade of small rocks, differentiated by mineral type, size range, or other characteristics.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A particle from 2 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Kidney stones, or nephrolithiasis
pos: noun
tags: archaic
uncountable
usually
examples: The great use of coffee in France is supposed to have abated the prevalency of the gravel, for where coffee is used as a constant beverage, the gravel and the gout are scarcely known.
gloss: A lameness in the foot of a horse, usually caused by an abscess.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The defendant below hired the horse to go from Cocksackie to Schodack, and the next day after his arrival at the latter place, the horse was found to be lame in one foot; and the lameness increasing, the defendant below was obliged to leave the horse there, and hire another with which to return. About four weeks after, the horse was brought home, and showed signs of gravel working out above the hoof.
'Looks like pus in the foot to me.'
'I'll bet you're right,' Farnon said. 'They call it gravel around here, by the way. What do you suggest we do about it?'
gloss: Inability to see at night; night blindness.
pos: noun
tags: rare
uncountable
usually
examples: A malady that was rare, but which because of its peculiarity elicited much comment, was "night blindness" or "gravel."
gloss: Gravel cycling, a discipline in cycling different from road cycling, mountain biking or cyclocross, for a large part on gravel roads, typically with a dedicated gravel bike.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The stimulant drug alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
usually
gloss: To apply a layer of gravel to the surface of a road, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We kept quietly on our way until we reached a place in the road that had been freshly graveled, and where the surface was covered with stones just suited to our use.
gloss: To puzzle or annoy.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The physician was so gravelled and amazed withal, that he had not a word more to say.
When you were gravelled for lack of matter.
[…] I arrived at a spot where I was completely gravelled, and could go no farther one way or the other; […]
It graveled me like sixty to pay such a price, but I had to do it because the season was just between hay and grass.
gloss: To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to (cause to) be grounded in gravel or sand.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: 1605, William Camden, “Grave Speeches and wittie Apothegms of worthy Personages of this Realm in former times,” in Remaines Concerning Britain, London: Simon Miller, sixth impression, 1657, p. 243,
William Conqerour when he invaded this Iland, chanced at his arrival to be gravelled, and one of his feet stuck so fast in the sand, that he fell to the ground.
the keeled gravelled on the beach
gloss: To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel or similar material lodged between the shoe and foot.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To prostrate; to beat to the ground.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
slang
transitive
Related words: alluvium
Derived words: crunchy-gravel drama
gravel bicycle
gravel bike
gravel-blind
gravel cruncher
graveldiver
graveler
graveliferous
gravellike
gravellish
gravelly
gravel nest
gravelometer
gravel pit
gravel road
gravel road cop
gravel stop
gravel trap
gravel-voiced
gravel-walk
kidney gravel
paleogravel
pea gravel
regravel
shell gravel
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