(rare) Inability to see at night; night blindness.
(uncountable) Small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railways, and as ballast.
(uncountable, archaic) 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.
(uncountable, cycling) 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
(uncountable, geology) A particle from 2 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
A lameness in the foot of a horse, usually caused by an abscess.
A type or grade of small rocks, differentiated by mineral type, size range, or other characteristics.
verb
(transitive) To apply a layer of gravel to the surface of a road, etc.
To check or stop; to confound; to perplex.
To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.
To puzzle or annoy.
To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.
grovel
grovel
verb
(intransitive) To abase oneself before another person.
(intransitive) To be prone on the ground.
(intransitive) To be slavishly nice to someone or apologize in the hope of securing something.
(intransitive) To crawl.
(intransitive) To take pleasure in mundane activities.