noun
1.A loose aggregation of small water-worn or pounded stones.
‘The first section of the path is of compacted gravel and suitable for wheelchair access.’
‘For plants that need free drainage I add very coarse sand or fine gravel.’
2.A mixture of gravel with coarse sand, used for paths and roads and as an aggregate.
‘There are many thousands of miles of gravel roads; they enjoy grading at least once a year.’
‘What separates roads from gravel paths, is the degree of asphalting they have been dressed with.’
3.A stratum or deposit of gravel.
‘The basalt flows and gravel deposits were lifted to high altitudes by continuing upward tectonics.’
‘The shallow soils are derived from fluvial gravel overlain by multiple Holocene volcanic ash deposits and aeolian dust.’
4.Aggregations of crystals formed in the urinary tract.
‘Its relaxant powers makes it also useful to facilitate the passage of renal calculi and cystic gravel.’
‘The authors draw the attention to the side-effect of the medicament, which might cause renal gravel formation.’
verb
1.Confuse or puzzle (someone)
‘the wisest doctor is _gravelled_ by the inquisitiveness of a child’
‘And this question _gravelled_ them, and ran them aground, and served to shame them before the people.’
2.Cover (an area of ground) with gravel.
‘they _gravelled_ the road’
‘steps lead down from the terrace to a _gravelled_ path’
3.Make (someone) angry or annoyed.
‘the strike was badly organized and it _gravelled_ him to involve himself in it’
‘English _gravelled_ him to death, because he had not the command of English that he had of his native tongue.’
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noun
‘The first section of the path is of compacted gravel and suitable for wheelchair access.’
