meaning of gravel3

1. To dig. [Obs. ] Chaucer.
2.
To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
3.
To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.
4.
To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
5.
To entomb; to bury.
6.
To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
7.
An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction.
8.
To clean, as a vessels bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc. , and pay it over with pitch; -- so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.
9.
Of great weight; heavy; ponderous.
10.
Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; -- said of character, relations, etc. ; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc.
11.
Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face.
12.
Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key.
13.
Slow and solemn in movement.
14.
a place for the burial of a corpse especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone; "he put flowers on his mothers ">grave"


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