'Graveling' definitions:
Definition of 'Graveling'
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- Graveling \Grav"el*ing\, or Gravelling \Grav"el*ling\, n. (Zool.) A salmon one or two years old, before it has gone to sea. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Graveling'
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 'Graveling'
From: GCIDE
- Graveling \Grav"el*ing\, or Gravelling \Grav"el*ling\, n.
- 1. The act of covering with gravel. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A layer or coating of gravel (on a path, etc.). Graveling