Crossword clues for graveled
graveled
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gravel \Grav"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Graveledor Gravelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Graveling or Gravelling.]
To cover with gravel; as, to gravel a walk.
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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.
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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. To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: gravel)
Usage examples of "graveled".
Suddenly there was a flash of light on his far right, deep inside the grounds at the end of a straight graveled road that branched off from the circular drive.
He slowly got to his feet, and ducking from one pine to the next, he made his way to the end of the circular drive, and then continued down the tree-lined border of the narrow graveled road.
The massive explosions blew the barricade away and instantly set the graveled road on fire, the leaping flames immediate—enveloping him!
They were divided by good graveled roads and surrounded by hedges, well-tended woodlots, houses of white-painted frame and plank or dark brick, and red hip-roofed barns.
A high dirt wall enclosed a neat gridwork of graveled streets, ditches, artillery parks with rows of iron muzzles.
Beyond the wood lay the imperfectly graveled surface of the Great West Road that ran along the northern shore of Long Island, finishing as a forest trail opposite the lonely little outpost on Manhattan.
The burden made it natural to keep her eyes down on the graveled surface of the road.
Her horse was hitched to the rail out in the graveled driveway, blowing with wide-flared nostrils, streaks of foam on its sweat-wet neck, trying to reach the water trough.
He swung back into the saddle and heeled his mount to the graveled verge of the road.
She moved step by careful step along the graveled path between the raised beds of fragrant herbs and flowers.
There were still great patches of open ground—their green often buried beneath the hoar—where gardens and orchards would prosper in G the spring and summers, but now graveled roads and streets crisscrossed the entire enclosed area, and to either side of these roads and streets rose the emerging skeletons of houses and public buildings.
Outside the Eaters were running about the graveled parking lot, squealing and screaming.
They rode beside the graveled road, then cut across a pasture to let the great caravan pass, waving to faces they knew.
Through the window Scarlett could see the bright riot of the twin lanes of daffodils bordering the graveled driveway and the golden masses of yellow jessamine spreading flowery sprangles modestly to the earth like crinolines.
She loved Ashley and she knew she loved him and she had never cared so much as in that instant when she saw Charles disappearing around the curved graveled walk.