Definition of Gravelled

1. Verb. (past of gravel) ¹

2. Adjective. Perplexed, puzzled; baffled; troubled. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Gravelled

1. gravel [v] - See also: gravel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gravelled

grave mound
grave robber
grave robbing
grave wax
graveclothes
graved
gravedigger
gravediggers
gravegliaite
gravel
gravel pit
graveled
graveless
gravelike
graveling
gravelled (current term)
gravellike
gravelliness
gravelling
gravelly
gravels
gravelweed
gravely
gravemarker
gravemarkers
graven
graven image
graveness
gravenesses
graveolence

Literary usage of Gravelled

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1857)
"... gravelled; an iron culvert, 3 feet diameter, has been laid for the public sewer, where it crossed under the road; the foundation of the road throughout ..."

2. The Life of Thomas Jefferson by Henry Stephens Randall (1871)
"... The Federal leaders " gravelled "— Sedgwick and Pickering to Hamilton on the Subject— Senate drive President to substitute a Commission — Ellsworth, ..."

3. Letters of Thomas Carlyle, 1826-1836 by Thomas Carlyle (1888)
"We are very braw about the doors; have large trees transplanted outside the Garden-dike, walks gravelled, etc. etc. . . . Again, dear Jack, adieu! ..."

4. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F. R. S.,from His Ms. Cypher by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke, Mynors Bright (1884)
"There followed the Vice- Chamberlain, Sir G. Carteret, a company of men all like Turkes ;3 but I know not yet what they are for. The streets all gravelled, ..."

5. Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F. R. S., Secretary to the Admiralty in the by Samuel Pepys, John A. Smith (1828)
"The streets all gravelled, and the houses hung with carpets before them, made brave show, and the ladies out of the windows. So glorious was the show with ..."

6. Sessional Papers by Ontario Legislative Assembly (1917)
"10 and 11, across lots 17 and 18, 40 rods were gravelled and 80 yds. of stone fill ... 2, between lots 7 and 6, iy2 miles were graded, HO rods gravelled, ..."

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