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.
Source : WordNet®
gravelling
See {gravel}
gravel
v 1: 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}, {vex},
{chafe}, {devil}]
2: cover with gravel; "We gravelled the driveway"
3: 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}, {amaze}, {dumbfound}]
[also: {gravelling}, {gravelled}]
gravel
adj : unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice"
[syn: {grating}, {gravelly}, {rasping}, {raspy}, {rough}]
[also: {gravelling}, {gravelled}]
gravel
n : rock fragments and pebbles [syn: {crushed rock}]
[also: {gravelling}, {gravelled}]