Definitions for gravel

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gravel grav·el

Spelling: [grav-uh l]

IPA: /ˈgræv əl/

Gravel is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 119 anagrams from letters in gravel (aeglrv).

Definitions for gravel

noun

1. small stones and pebbles, or a mixture of these with sand.
2. Pathology. multiple small calculi formed in the kidneys. the disease characterized by such concretions.

adjective

1. harsh and grating:

verb (used with object)

1. to cover with gravel.
2. to bring to a standstill from perplexity; puzzle.
3. Informal. to be a cause of irritation to.
4. Obsolete. to run (a ship) aground, as on a beach.

Origin of gravel

1250-1300; Middle English Old French gravele, diminutive of grave sandy shore, perhaps Celtic; cf. grave⁴, growan

Examples for gravel

(on the gravel), but he was immediately recovered, none the worse.

It is simply a gravel yard walled off by sand bastions and concrete barriers.

There, in his cluttered office at the end of a gravel lane, I came face to face with one of my unsung literary heroes.

An' so the gravel laid there, an' we walked round it, watchers an' all.

The plaint of the gravel travelled slowly all round the drive.

They dress in clothing from the flophouse lost-and-found and are groomed with a hacksaw and gravel rake.

What the gardener called the gravel path was black earth, moss-grown.

The truck pulls the guitar over railroad tracks, through rocks and gravel, whatever, and the guitar is still speaking.

He drew his short sword from its sheath, and scratched a deep mark in the gravel.

The guard is first seen marching up and down the gravel forecourt, before breaking into pirouettes.