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gravelled, ppl. a.|ˈgrævəld|
[f. gravel v. (? and n.) + -ed.]
1. Covered or laid with gravel; † consisting of gravel.
1400–1507Churchw. Acc., St. Mary Hill, Lond. (Nichols 1797) 90 The Procession church yard with its gravelled causey. 1563T. Hill Art Garden. ii. lvi. (1608) 141 The Radish in no wise agreeth to be sowen either in a sandy or grauelled ground. 1597Tofte Laura in Alba (1880) Introd. 41 And venter for to sayle in th' Ocean strong, Though now on graueld shore it fearfull staies. 1712Order 1 July in Lond. Gaz. No. 5028/1 The South side of the Gravelled Coach Road. 1813Scott Trierm. ii. Interlude ii, And grant the lounger seldom strays Beyond the smooth and gravell'd maze. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge lviii, He was taken handcuffed across the gravelled area. 1888E. J. Goodman Too Curious iv, A gravelled path led from the outer gate.
2. In various transf. and fig. senses.
a. Perplexed, puzzled.
†b. Of a ship: Beached, stranded.
†c. Of a horse: (see gravel v. 5).
†d. gravelled ashes (see quot. 1706: = F. cendre gravelée).
1579J. Field Calvin's Serm. Ded., Receiuing nothing but that which standeth to the lyking of their humors & graueled consciences. 1611Cotgr., Aggravé,..also, grauelled, or, as a ship, fast on the ground. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Wks. i. 90/1 The Pricke in the sole, the Loose in Hoofe, the Graueld, the Foundring, and the Shedding of the haire. 1660Hexham Netherdutch Dict., A Gravelled horse, een verstijft paerde. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Gravelled Ashes, (among Chymists) the Lees of Wine dry'd and burnt to Ashes. 1736Bailey Househ. Dict. 44 Fill a kettle or stew-pan half full of water, into which put..a penny-worth or two of Gravelled-Ashes. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. II. iv. xii. 262 He never did know such a move,..he never had been so gravelled. 1967Listener 7 Dec. 763/2 Sir Francis Chichester, temporarily gravelled for an admired man of the past, appealed to the studio audience for names.
e. Of a voice: cf. gravel voice.
1958Listener 26 June 1071/2 A gravelled voice with superb powers of timing. |