gravelled

Verb

gravel (third-person singular simple present gravels, present participle (US) graveling or (UK) gravelling, simple past and past participle (US) graveled or (UK) gravelled)

1. (transitive) To apply a layer of gravel to the surface of a road, etc.
   • We kept quietly on our way until we reached a place in the road that had been freshly graveled, and where the surface was covered with stones just suited to our use.1905, John F. Hume, The Abolitionists
2. (transitive) To puzzle or annoy.
   • The physician was so gravelled and amazed withal, that he had not a word more to say.1579, Sir Thomas North, tr., Plutarch's Lives, The Life of Marcus Antonius
3. (ambitransitive) To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to (cause to) be grounded in gravel or sand.
   • William Conqerour when he invaded this Iland, chanced at his arrival to be gravelled, and one of his feet stuck so fast in the sand, that he fell to the ground.1605, William Camden, “Grave Speeches and wittie Apothegms of worthy Personages of this Realm in former times,” in Remaines Concerning Britain, London: Simon Miller, sixth impression, 1657, p. 243
4. (obsolete, transitive) To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel or similar material lodged between the shoe and foot.
5. (archaic, slang, transitive) To prostrate; to beat to the ground.

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Adjective

graveled

1. Covered with gravel.
   • The soldiers admitted that while they had the money to lay gravel on a particular road, they lacked the funds to pave it, even though all agreed that graveled roads offered easy concealment for IEDs.2006 May 5, Harold Henderson, “Snips”, in Chicago Reader
2. Perplexed, puzzled, baffled; troubled, annoyed.
   • "The fracture is your making; the pin--" Here Miss Dolly interrupted; to tell the truth I was not sorry, for I was fairly graveled for the meaning of the pin.1894, Anthony Hope, Dolly Dialogues