Gravel

n.	1.	Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.
	2.	(Med.) A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder.
v. t.	1.	To cover with gravel; as, to gravel a walk.
	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. 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.

Noun	1.	gravel - rock fragments and pebbles Synonyms: crushed rock
Verb	1.	gravel - cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations; "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves" Synonyms: annoy, devil, irritate, nark, rile, vex, nettle, rag, bother, chafe, get at, get to
	2.	gravel - cover with gravel; "We gravelled the driveway"
	3.	gravel - be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me" Synonyms: bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, mystify, nonplus, perplex, baffle, puzzle, stupefy, amaze, vex, pose, stick, beat, get
Adj.	1.	gravel - unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice" Synonyms: grating, rasping, raspy, gravelly, rough

To see gravel in your dream, signifies useless and non-profitable schemes and enterprises.Tarmac, Tarvia, asphalt, bitumen, bituminous macadam, blacktop, breccia, brick, cement, chafe, cobble, cobblestone, concrete, curb, curbing, curbstone, debris, detritus, edgestone, exacerbate, flag, flagging, flagstone, fret, gall, grain, granule, granulet, grate, grate on, grit, irritate, kerb, kerbstone, macadam, pavement, pavestone, paving, paving stone, provoke, rasp, road metal, sand, set on edge, shingle, stone, tarmacadam, tile, washboard

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