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noun

small stones and pebbles, or a mixture of these with sand.

Pathology.

multiple small calculi formed in the kidneys.

the disease characterized by such concretions.

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verb (used with object)

to cover with gravel.

to bring to a standstill from perplexity; puzzle.

Informal. to be a cause of irritation to.

Obsolete. to run (a ship) aground, as on a beach.

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adjective

harsh and grating: a gravel voice.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English < Old French gravele, diminutive of grave sandy shore, perhaps < Celtic; compare grave⁴, growan

Related forms

grav·el·ish, adjective

un·grav·eled, adjective

un·grav·elled, adjective

well-grav·eled, adjective

well-grav·elled, adjective

Can be confused: 1. gavel, gravel, grovel; 2. gavel, gravel.

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Mix gravel with rocks of varying sizes to add interest in large areas.

If you've ever driven along a gravel or dirt road in the summer, you're undoubtedly familiar with the washboards that develop.

In a fire-wise garden, use gravel or decomposed granite-not flammable bark mulch-to cover the bare ground around plants.

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Mix gravel with rocks of varying sizes to add interest in large areas.

If you've ever driven along a gravel or dirt road in the summer, you're undoubtedly familiar with the washboards that develop.

In a fire-wise garden, use gravel or decomposed granite-not flammable bark mulch-to cover the bare ground around plants.

Have the bricks, sand and gravel delivered to your site.

In my two running falls, the only thing that scarred was when my dermatologist removed gravel from my palm.

Some progress has been made in building gravel tracks.

Follow the same procedure with pebbles or gravel and with clay.

But gravel containing erionite is still in use in some places, and all the scientists can do is advise.

Modern concrete is a mix of a lime-based cement, water, sand and so-called aggregates such as fine gravel.

Soon, the gravel driveways wending through the grounds.

Then there is the favorite rolling spots in the back with the new gravel.

Buried deeper was the gravel highway that once led there.

The upward rush of water, called swash, delivers sand and gravel to the beach.

After routine road grading, they combed through the gravel to recover them.

Today streams have steep banks and gravel riffles and defined channels.

The result is an odd landscape of reddish-brown and gray hills of gravel with water-filled ravines in between.

Washington, who had been shot, were found at a gravel pit.

In one dream, he limped up the gravel road from our family cemetery and tapped on my bedroom window.

There are also gravel courses where players carry around small mats on which to place their golf balls.

On the return, backwash carries sand and gravel out to sea.

The larger sizes of any given natural sand or gravel are much better rounded than the smaller grades".

In areas where rivers once ran over kimberlite seams, people sift diamonds from gravel.

Versatile gravel works beautifully surrounding a modern fountain and echoing the colors of the cityscape beyond.

The pulverizers begin to spin, crushing the rock into gravel.

They swung nine-pound hammers and picks, battering gravel under old metal ties, while the foreman knelt.

Fill the planters with a bit of gravel and then add potting soil and seeds or plug plants.

Bald eagles and ospreys roost in the old cottonwoods that line the gravel shores.

Herbs and edible plants grown in pot are cordoned off from the gravel path with a charming circular stone border.

Wright says he's working on an automotive jack that will work on dirt, gravel and any other lousy surface.

The spokesman said the vehicle apparently was on a dirt and gravel mountain road that is mostly used in the summer.

Reservoirs have flooded gravel bars where salmon reproduce.

When a gravel path and adjacent planting beds are new, the transition from bare soil to gravel can give the garden an unfinished.

She stood alone on her impeccable plastic gravel path.

Black tar smooths stretches of the mostly gravel road.

The first several miles are on a narrow gravel road not open to vehicular traffic.

Newman counterbalanced the smoothness of sandstone and stucco with crunchy gravel.

He sits by a gravel pile, in the corner of a bombed-out agricultural school.

The proportions of water, sand, gravel and cement in the concrete must be just.

Whether you're riding your bike on crunchy country gravel or gritty city asphalt, we've got you covered.

The desert rose color of the fine gravel makes the path stand out from the coarser gray gravel mulch around it, inviting you.

He was climbing a mountain of loose gravel and making less and less progress at each step.

The state will also install guard rails along a rebuilt boat ramp, plant shrubs and put in a fence and a gravel walkway.

It's difficult to imagine it full of pipes, pump stations, and gravel roads.

In arid climates, thrives in gravel beds and other dry sites.

There is an ocean of parked cars, gravel lots, auto-repair.

Use gravel or pavement to let rain seep into the soil.

If your soil is heavy clay, mix some pumice or gravel into the backfill and plant your agaves on a mound.

Each community lies at the dead end of a gravel road-the only two roads inside the park.

We placed it on a gravel pad to help drainage and also added concrete pavers to stand on.

Mercury has historically been used in hydraulic gold mining to separate gold from the gravel.

Then slabs of randomly cut red flagstone were laid on a gravel base.

She's literally disappearing into the sand and gravel of the water's floor.

Air taxis are equipped to land on lakes and gravel bars for drop-offs and pickups.

Slide a plastic saucer, with a few small pieces of gravel in it, inside the opening of each shoe.

The men began walking the net back upstream, drawing it tighter toward the shallows, herding salmon onto a gravel beach.

Here crystal waters flex into a sweeping bend of stream with a margin of gravel beach.

We had to take some crazy gravel roads with big potholes inside.

Pound nails, build concrete block walls, and spread gravel while working shoulder to shoulder with the future owner.

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World English Dictionary

gravel (ˈɡræv^əl)

—n
1.	an unconsolidated mixture of rock fragments that is coarser than sand
2.	geology a mixture of rock fragments with diameters in the range 4--76 mm
3.	pathol small rough calculi in the kidneys or bladder

—vb , -els, -elling, -elled, -els, -eling, -eled
4.	to cover with gravel
5.	to confound or confuse
6.	informal (US) to annoy or disturb

[C13: from Old French gravele, diminutive of grave gravel, perhaps of Celtic origin]

'gravelish

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

gravel

c.1300, from O.Fr. gravele, dim. of grave "sand, seashore," from Celt. *gravo- (cf. Welsh gro "coarse gravel," Bret. grouan, Cornish grow "gravel").

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Medical Dictionary

gravel grav·el (grāv'əl)
n.
Sandlike concretions of uric acid, calcium oxalate, and mineral salts formed in the passages of the biliary and urinary tracts.

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