Word Finder - gravel

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Small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railways, and as ballast.

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A type or grade of small rocks, differentiated by mineral type, size range, or other characteristics.

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A particle from 2 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale

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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.

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To apply a layer of gravel to the surface of a road, etc.

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To puzzle or annoy

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To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.

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To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex.

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To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.

Boots crunched on gravel behind her.

The roadway was gravel, but well maintained on a year-round basis.

Valley gravel borders the Thames, with some interruptions, from Kingston to Greenwich, and extends to a wide belt, with ramifications, from Wandsworth south to Croydon, and in a narrower line from Greenwich towards Bromley.

Backing the truck around, he threw gravel from the rear tires as he took off.

The car spun around at the bottom of the hill, spraying gravel in a wild circle.

He heard tires crunch on gravel outside the cabin.

He lifted a large piece of gravel to show her.

Whole forests, vast quarries of granite, and hills of gravel were used in fringing the water margins, constructing wharves, piers and causeways, redeeming flats, and furnishing piling and solid foundations for buildings.

She stopped at the gravel drive and reached for her shoes.

The truck slid to a stop in the yard, spraying gravel and dust.

The sound of tires crunching on gravel announced the approach of a vehicle.

Behind her, Josh roared his engine as he turn the truck around, and slung gravel on the road as he took off.

Turning on a wide gravel road, she stopped to study the map.

Surely he had heard the gravel fly when her car had stopped.

Instead, she trotted down the gravel driveway, each crunching step making her cringe.

Its width is as a rule about 24 ft.; at present its surface is formed of rough cobbling, upon which there was probably a gravel layer, now washed away.

They are built of "sun-dried blocks of mud and gravel, about 22 in.

The slopes of the sides vary according to the nature of the ground, the amount of moisture present, &c. In solid rock they may be vertical; in gravel, sand or common earth they must, to prevent slipping, rise r ft.

The ballast consists of such materials as broken stone, furnace slag, gravel, cinders or earth, the lower layers commonly consisting of coarser materials than the top ones, and its purpose is to provide a firm, well-drained foundation in which the sleepers or crossties may be embedded and held in place, and by which the weight of the track and the trains may be distributed over the road-bed.

The hornbeam thrives well on stiff, clayey, moist soils, into which its roots penetrate deeply; on chalk or gravel it does not flourish.

Underneath the surface are beds of sand, gravel and clays, the last affording material for the manufacture of brick, tiles and pottery.

The stones, averaging ten to a carat, are found in the river gravel or in alluvial deposits.

In Germany very similar filters have also been used, pearl-quartz gravel taking the place of coral sand, which it closely resembles.

Now, six months later, in spite of the windshield pockmarked from the gravel roads of Ouray County, it felt like an old friend.

He biked away from the highway, up the gravel road to the west.

Tires crunched on gravel and he glanced out the door.

A huge white sycamore skeleton sprawled on the gravel beach, its bark long gone.

The sound of tires crunching on gravel brought her attention back to the drive.

She kicked at a piece of gravel.

Small streams often sink from sight in their beds of gravel, and after flowing some distance underground, reappear farther on.

On the Coastal Plain the soil is generally sandy, but in nearly all parts of this region more or less marl abounds; south of the Neuse river the soil is mostly a loose sand, north of it there is more loam on the uplands, and in the lowlands the soil is usually compact with clay, silt or peat; toward the western border of the region the sand becomes coarser and some gravel is mixed with it.

Boots crunched on gravel and she looked up to find Alex watching her.

He said nothing as he walked across the gravel and set her down on the porch.

The soil is for the most part glacial drift, composed of clay, sand and gravel, and varying greatly in depth.

But he received an invitation to become morning preacher at Gravel Pit Chapel, Hackney.

The surrounding country, which is traversed by gravel roads leading to the principal towns of the province, is fertile and well cultivated, producing sugar, tobacco and rice in abundance.

The alluvial extracted, which in the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago carries from 5 to 60 lb of tinstone (or "black tin," as it is termed by Cornish miners) to the cubic yard of gravel, is washed in various simple sluicing appliances, by which the lighter clay, sand and stones are removed and tinstone is left behind comparatively pure, containing usually 65 to 75% of metallic tin (chemically pure tinstone contains 78.7%).

In the north and west the clay is interspersed with patches of plateau gravel in the direction of Finchley (where boulder clay also appears), Enfield and Barnet; and of Bagshot sands on Hampstead Heath and Harrow Hill.

Within minutes a truck plunged down the hill and into the yard, stopping in a spray of gravel in front of the house.

The prevailing soils are sand and gravel loams, but other varieties are numerous, ranging from rich alluvial beds of extinct lakes, as in parts of Lyon and Esmeralda counties, to the strongly alkaline plains of the southern deserts.

Gravel is found on the high ground about Richmond Park and Wimbledon.

The cost of filling has been greatly reduced by the system of flushing culm, sand, gravel and similar material, through pipes leading from the surface into mine workings.

Here, in gray smudges in the gravel spanning five millennia, is the essence of Heathrow 's story.

Sea Thrift produced the usual attractive sweeps over the gravel, but none of this had actually sprouted forth from the disturbed ground.

The soil is sandy, upon a subsoil of gravel.

Where the underlying rock or gravel deposits are close to the surface, the subsoil layer may be very thin.

The latter two factors probably have the greatest influence on the organisms that inhabit sand and gravel substrata.

The soil is generally a black sandy loam, inclining to clay, and having a plentiful substratum of gravel.

It is one of the best models for hilly or gravel driveways since it has powered wheels and an auger that won't dig into gravel.

This model is designed to handle driveways on hills and gravel driveways.