gravel

Etymology
From, , from , diminutive of , from , ultimately from (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), from , from. Compare also 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  Small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railways, and as ballast.
 * 2) A type or grade of small rocks, differentiated by mineral type, size range, or other characteristics.
 * 3)  A particle from 2 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
 * 4)  Kidney stones; a deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom.
 * 5) A lameness in the foot of a horse, usually caused by an abscess.
 * 6)  Inability to see at night; night blindness.
 * 7)  gravel cycling, a discipline in cycling different from road cycling, mountain biking or cyclocross, for a large part on gravel roads, typically with a dedicated gravel bike
 * 8)  The stimulant drug alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone.
 * 1)  Inability to see at night; night blindness.
 * 2)  gravel cycling, a discipline in cycling different from road cycling, mountain biking or cyclocross, for a large part on gravel roads, typically with a dedicated gravel bike
 * 3)  The stimulant drug alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone.
 * 1)  gravel cycling, a discipline in cycling different from road cycling, mountain biking or cyclocross, for a large part on gravel roads, typically with a dedicated gravel bike
 * 2)  The stimulant drug alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone.

Synonyms

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Translations

 * Albanian:, hakëll,
 * Arabic: حَصَى, حَصْبَاء
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque: legar, muger, hartxintxar, hartxinga
 * Belarusian: жвір, гра́вій
 * Bikol Central:
 * Bulgarian:, бала́стра
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen: жагӏа
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Friulian: glerie
 * Galician:, cascallo, , grixo, rebo
 * Georgian: ხრეში
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κάχληξ, χάλιξ
 * Hawaiian: ʻiliʻili makaliʻi
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: puru
 * Irish: gairbhéal
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: қиыршық тас, гравий
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:, زیخ
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latgalian: žvyrs
 * Latin: glārea
 * Latvian: grants
 * Lithuanian: žvyras
 * Lombard:
 * Luxembourgish: Kiselsteen
 * Macedonian: ча́кал, гра́гор
 * Malay: batu kerikil
 * Manchu: ᠶᠠᠩᡤᡡᠸᠠᠨ
 * Maori: matakirikiri, kirikiri, kiripōhatu
 * Mari:
 * Eastern Mari: щебень, щебёнко
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, pukk
 * Occitan:
 * Ottoman Turkish: قوم
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Quechua: rawra
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sardinian: giarra, zara
 * Scots: grevel
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: шљу́нак
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian: brecciu, bricciulinu,
 * Slovak: štrk
 * Slovene: gramoz, grušč,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: graba, gasang
 * Tajik: сангреза,
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: བྱེ་རྡོ
 * Tocharian B: yare
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: гра́вій
 * Uyghur: شېغىل
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian: giara, gera, jera
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:


 * French:
 * Hebrew:
 * Portuguese:


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Portuguese:


 * French:
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 * Telugu:

Verb

 * 1)  To apply a layer of gravel to the surface of a road, etc.
 * 2)  To puzzle or annoy.
 * 3)  To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.
 * 4) * 1605,, “Grave Speeches and wittie Apothegms of worthy Personages of this Realm in former times,” in , London: Simon Miller, sixth impression, 1657, p. 243,
 * William Conqerour when he invaded this Iland, chanced at his arrival to be gravelled, and one of his feet stuck so fast in the sand, that he fell to the ground.
 * 1)  To check or stop; to confound; to perplex.
 * 2) * 1579, Sir Thomas North, tr., Plutarch's Lives, The Life of Marcus Antonius:
 * The physician was so gravelled and amazed withal, that he had not a word more to say.
 * 1)  To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.
 * 2)  To prostrate; to beat to the ground.
 * 1)  To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.
 * 2)  To prostrate; to beat to the ground.
 * 1)  To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.
 * 2)  To prostrate; to beat to the ground.

Usage notes

 * In North American English, the forms graveled and graveling are more common.

Translations

 * Finnish: sorata
 * German:
 * Ido: ,
 * Italian: agghiaiare
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Spanish: rociar con grava, salpicar con grava
 * Swedish:

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) claycourt (surface for playing tennis)

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) durable bicycle capable of riding over gravel or other hard terrain; mountain bike

Noun

 * 1) bicycling competition on gravel or other hard terrain

Adjective

 * 1)  mountain bike

Etymology
, from.

Noun

 * 1)  sand, gravel
 * 2)  pebbles
 * 3) the disease so named
 * 1) the disease so named