'Gravelled' definitions:

Definition of 'Gravelled'

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  • 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]

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