graveling

Graveling \Grav"el*ing\, or Gravelling \Grav"el*ling\, n.
   1. The act of covering with gravel.
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   2. A layer or coating of gravel (on a path, etc.). Graveling
    

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