Gravel

Definition of Gravel

Grav´el

(Med.) A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom.

Gravel powder
a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder.

v. t.

To cover with gravel; as, to gravel a walk.

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.

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.

To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.

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