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ˈgravel-stone
[f. gravel n. + stone n.]
1. One of the stones of which gravel is mainly composed; a pebble. Also fig.
c1440Jacob's Well (E.E.T.S.) 304 Þise grauelstonys, þat is, coueytous thoutys..arn so scharpe & hevy as grauel. 1535Coverdale Isa. xlviii. 19 Thy sede shal be like as the sonde in the see, & the frute of thy body like the grauel stones thereof. 1650Jer. Taylor Funeral Serm. C'tess Carbery 4 The unevenness of a gravel-stone. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 286 Bees bear Gravel Stones, whose poising Weight Steers thro' the whistling Wind their steddy Flight. 1795Anderson Narr. Brit. Emb. China viii. 99 The lateral parts are laid with gravel stones. 1849James Woodman vii, Mingled with small gravel stones and thick loam.
†2. A kind of stone, having the appearance of consolidated gravel; ? conglomerate. Obs.
1715Leoni Palladio's Archit. (1742) I. 91 Stone, or Gravel-stone, or any soft Stone.
†3. = calculus 1. Obs.
1606Holland Sueton. 74 Voiding at length little gravell-stones by urine, he was eased of that paine. |