n. 铺砾石

Graveling \Grav"el*ing\, or Gravelling \Grav"el*ling\, n.
1. The act of covering with gravel.

2. 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. {Graveled}or {Gravelled};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Graveling} or {Gravelling}.]
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. --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. --Camden.

3. 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.

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