DEFINITION
GRAVEL:
• (n.) Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles,
often intermixed with particles of sand.
• (n.) A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and
the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a
symptom.
• (v. t.) To cover with gravel; as, to gravel a walk.
• (v. t.) To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run
aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.
• (v. t.) To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex.
• (v. t.) To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the
shoe and foot.