Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The parr or young salmon. Thompson. Also gravelling, gravelin.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of covering with gravel.
  • noun A layer or coating of gravel (on a path, etc.).
  • noun (Zoöl.) A salmon one or two years old, before it has gone to sea.

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  • verb Present participle of gravel.

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Examples

  • Please spare us all, we know you are bigger than graveling for votes.

    Edwards campaign manager to endorse Obama 2008

  • With that note expect John Kerry NOT to get the Secretary of State position since he was graveling for it in the press.

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  • I say nothing pause, 4 long seconds - and then a few trail in with some barely detachable sounds - not actual identifiable words but definitely audible graveling - that might indicate that this statement is not necessarily true.

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  • I say nothing pause, 4 long seconds - and then a few trail in with some barely detachable sounds - not actual identifiable words but definitely audible graveling - that might indicate that this statement is not necessarily true.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Phil Razem 2008

  • His character goes from a smooth and confident wolf, to a graveling victim.

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  • Would you like me to save them up toward the next graveling?

    Another Thing I Do You Probably Don’t « Whatever 2007

  • They could take no part in the blasting operations, but they were able lads and could help at graveling the surface.

    The Road Leads On 2003

  • The jolting of the gig ended as soon as the wheels touched the drive-hundreds of years of graveling and rolling went a long way toward making a stretch of driveway as flat and hard as a paved street in London.

    The Gates Of Sleep Lackey, Mercedes 2002

  • Guitar and dulcimer blended, and Clancey picked up the tune, his voice graveling over the climbing surge of the notes:

    Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000

  • Guitar and dulcimer blended, and Clancey picked up the tune, his voice graveling over the climbing surge of the notes:

    Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000

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