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.
GRAVELESS
Grave"less, a.
Defn: Without a grave; unburied.
GRAVELING; GRAVELLING
Grav"el*ing, or Grav"el*ling, n.
1. The act of covering with gravel.
2. A layer or coating of gravel (on a path, etc.).
GRAVELING; GRAVELLING
Grav"el*ing, or Grav"el*ling, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A salmon one or two years old, before it has gone to sea.