Gravel /(?)/

1. Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.
2. A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. (Med.)

imp. & p. p. Graveled; p. pr. & vb. n. Graveling

1. To cover with gravel; as, to gravel a walk.
2. 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.

   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.

3. To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex. [Colloq.]

   When you were graveled for lack of matter.

   The physician was so graveled and amazed withal, that he had not a word more to say.

4. To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.