Толковый словарь английского языка - gravel
Gravel
gravel
I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French ~e, diminutive of grave, greve river bank, stony ground Date: 13th century sand , 2. loose rounded fragments of rock, a stratum or deposit of ~, small calculi in the kidneys and urinary bladder, II. transitive verb (-eled or -elled; -eling or ~ling) Date: 1543 to cover or spread with ~, 2. perplex , confound , irritate , nettle , III. adjective Date: 1939 ~ly 2
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n. & v. --n. 1 a a mixture of coarse sand and small water-worn or pounded stones, used for paths and roads and as an aggregate. b Geol. a stratum of this. 2 Med. aggregations of crystals formed in the urinary tract. --v.tr. (gravelled, gravelling; US graveled, graveling) 1 lay or strew with gravel. 2 perplex, puzzle, nonplus (from an obs. sense 'run (a ship) aground'). Phrases and idioms gravel-blind literary almost completely blind ('more than sand-blind', in Shakesp. Merchant of Venice II. ii. 33). Etymology: ME f. OF gravel(e) dimin. of grave (as GRAVE(4)) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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