Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Graveling \Grav"el*ing\, or Gravelling \Grav"el*ling\, n.
   1. The act of covering with gravel.

   2. A layer or coating of gravel (on a path, etc.).

Graveling \Grav"el*ing\, or Gravelling \Grav"el*ling\, n.
   (Zo["o]l.)
   A salmon one or two years old, before it has gone to sea.

Gravel \Grav"el\, v. t. [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.