Usually means: Small, loose stones for construction.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word gravel:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. gravel: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. gravel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gravel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gravel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gravel: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gravel, gravel: Wordnik
  7. gravel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Gravel, gravel: Wiktionary
  9. gravel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gravel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gravel: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. gravel: Dictionary.com
  13. gravel: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gravel: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Gravel (comics), Gravel (disambiguation), Gravel (surname), Gravel (video game), Gravel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gravel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gravel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gravel: Rhymezone
  19. gravel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. gravel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. gravel: Free Dictionary
  22. gravel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. gravel: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gravel: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Gravel: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. GRAVEL: Acronym Finder

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Field Trip to Mars (No longer online)
  3. Geography Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. gravel, gravel: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Gravel: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. Gravel: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Roofing Terms (No longer online)
  3. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)
  4. gravel: Canadian Soil Information System
  5. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)

(Note: See graveled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) Small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railways, and as ballast.
noun:  A type or grade of small rocks, differentiated by mineral type, size range, or other characteristics.
noun:  (uncountable, geology) A particle from 2 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
noun:  (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.
noun:  A lameness in the foot of a horse, usually caused by an abscess.
noun:  (rare) Inability to see at night; night blindness.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (slang) The stimulant drug alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone.
verb:  (transitive) To apply a layer of gravel to the surface of a road, etc.
verb:  (transitive) To puzzle or annoy.
verb:  (transitive) To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.
verb:  (transitive) To check or stop; to confound; to perplex.
verb:  (transitive) To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.
verb:  (transitive, slang, archaic) To prostrate; to beat to the ground.
noun:  A surname.

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