gravel
/ˈɡɹævəl/ nom B2En français : graviers, gravillons, gravier
- Small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railways, and as ballast.
- A type or grade of small rocks, differentiated by mineral type, size range, or other characteristics.
- A particle from 2 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
- A lameness in the foot of a horse, usually caused by an abscess.
- Gravel cycling, a discipline in cycling different from road cycling, mountain biking or cyclocross, for a large part on gravel roads, typically with a dedicated gravel bike.
- The stimulant drug alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone.
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O the clean gravel!
A small garden sprinkled over with a scattered eruption of sickly plants separated each of these houses from the street, and was traversed by a narrow pathway, yellowish in colour, and consisting apparently of a mixture of clay and of gravel.
So he trotted off to the gravel path near the house, and sat down to think.
It was not difficult to tell the direction which she had taken, for, starting from under her window, we could follow her footmarks easily across the lawn to the edge of the mere, where they vanished close to the gravel path which leads out of the grounds.
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