gravel
/ˈɡɹævəl/ verb C2- To apply a layer of gravel to the surface of a road, etc.
- To puzzle or annoy.
- To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to (cause to) be grounded in gravel or sand.
He/she/it gravels · Past graveled · Past participle graveled · -ing form graveling
Verb forms
- Base form
- gravel
- He/she/it
- gravels
- Past
- graveled
- Past participle
- graveled
- -ing form
- graveling
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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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