The Collaborative International Dictionary
Graveling \Grav"el*ing\, or Gravelling \Grav"el*ling\, n.
The act of covering with gravel.
A layer or coating of gravel (on a path, etc.).
Graveling \Grav"el*ing\, or Gravelling \Grav"el*ling\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A salmon one or two years old, before it has gone to sea.
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.
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Etymology 1 n. (alternative form of gravelling English) Etymology 2
vb. (present participle of gravel English)
Usage examples of "graveling".
His last sight before his eyes fell shut was of Atiaran, sitting enshadowed on the far side of the graveling pot, her face set relentlessly toward the north.