'Gravel' definitions:

Definition of 'gravel'

(from WordNet)
noun
Rock fragments and pebbles [syn: gravel, crushed rock]
verb
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, gravel, vex, chafe, devil]
verb
Cover with gravel; "We gravelled the driveway"
verb
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, gravel, amaze, dumbfound]

Definition of 'Gravel'

From: GCIDE
  • Gravel \Grav"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Graveledor Gravelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Graveling or Gravelling.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. To cover with gravel; as, to gravel a walk. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand. [1913 Webster]
  • When we were fallen into a place between two seas, they graveled the ship. --Acts xxvii.
  • 41 (Rhemish version). [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
  • When you were graveled for lack of matter. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • The physician was so graveled and amazed withal, that he had not a word more to say. --Sir T. North. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Gravel'

From: GCIDE
  • Gravel \Grav"el\, n. [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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'gravel'

From: Moby Thesaurus

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