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 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.
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