Gravelly

Quick meaning: Gravelly is an adjective meaning Full of, covered with, or similar to gravel or pebbles.

Meaning

Full of, covered with, or similar to gravel or pebbles.

More Meanings

1. Of a voice: unpleasantly harsh or rasping.
2. (pathology) Caused by or involving gravel (“kidney stones”).
3. (obsolete) Full of or covered with sand; sandy.

Example Sentences

As the goeing vp a grauelie way in the feete of the aged, ſo a woman ful of tongue to a quiet man.

[…] currently incarcerated Stinc Team members Ketchy the Great, SaySoTheMac, and Bambino; the devilish and gravelly Almighty Suspect; red-clad Inglewooder and headband connoisseur FreeAckrite; baby-faced Martin Luther King Park loiterer Johnny Rose; […]

The dung which men make […] is greatly miſlyked, for that by nature it is hoter and burneth the ſeedes ſowne in that earth: ſo that this is not to bee uſed, unleſſe the ground be a barren, grauelly or verie louſe ſand, lacking ſtrength in it, which being on ſuche wiſe, requyreth the more helpe of nouriſhment and fatning, through this kinde of dung: […]

This earth, however, is not to be ſuppoſed entirely pure, but is mixed with much ſtony and gravelly matter, from the layers lying immediately beneath it. It generally happens, that the ſoil is fertile in proportion to the quantity that this putrified mold bears to the gravelly mixture; and as the former predominates, ſo far is the vegetation upon it more luxuriant.

Word Forms

• gravely

Synonyms for gravelly

Depending on context, synonyms include gravelish, gravelous, rough, grating, raspy, rasping.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include shingly, pebbly, gravel, beachy, beachlike, rasping.

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