gravellingn.
/ˈɡravəlɪŋ/ 1. The action of laying down gravel. Also, a gravelled surface.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > paving and road-building > [noun] > paving > with specific material
gravelling1577
causeying1596
flagging1656
pitching1702
ruderation1730
macadamization1822
macadamizing1824
asphalting1840
blinding1843
causewaying1876
bouldering1880
metalling1885
blacktopping1947
tarmacing1975
society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > [noun] > specific surface
gravelling1751
pavé1768
1577 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1889) IV. 169 We present ye caussey..to be in dekye for lack of gravelyng.
1659 G. Torriano Florio's Vocabolario Italiano & Inglese Arenaménto, any gravelling or sanding.
1726 W. King in G. Boate Nat. Hist. Ireland 111 Gravelling is a great improvement in this country.
1751 C. Labelye Descr. Westm. Bridge 26 This Bridge (its Paving and Gravelling excepted) will want no considerable Repairs.
1883 W. H. Bishop in Harper's Mag. 825/2 What cutting and filling! what gravelling and paving!
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > disorders of feet or hooves
pains1440
mellitc1465
false quarter1523
gravelling?1523
founder1547
foundering1548
foot evil1562
crown scab1566
prick1566
quittor bone1566
moltlong1587
scratches1591
hoof-bound1598
corn1600
javar1600
frush1607
crepance1610
fretishing1610
seam1610
scratchets1611
kibe1639
tread1661
grease1674
gravel1675
twitter-bone1688
cleft1694
quittor1703
bleymes1725
crescent1725
hoof-binding1728
capelet1731
twitter1745
canker1753
grease-heels1753
sand-crack1753
thrush1753
greasing1756
bony hoof1765
seedy toe1829
side bone1840
cracked heel1850
mud fever1872
navicular1888
coronitis1890
toe-crack1891
flat-foot1894
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxvv Grauelyng is an hurt woll make a horse to halt: and cometh of grauell and lytell stones that goth in bytwene the shough and the hert of the fote.
1566 T. Blundeville Order curing Horses Dis. f. 99v, in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe The Graueling..is a fretting vnder the foote, most commonly in the insyde, and sometime in the outsyde.
1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. vi. 107 Prick, Stub, Graveling, Quitterbone, or other hurt within the Foote.
1706 in Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.)
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Gravelling,..a Disorder incident to Travelling-horses, occasion'd by little Gravel-stones getting in between the Hoof and the Shoe.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
gravellingadj.
/ˈɡravəlɪŋ/ Puzzling; perplexing.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > act of perplexing > [adjective]
maskinga1387
maskeringc1400
mazingc1449
mazefula1586
perplexing1585
distraughtful1594
confounding1595
confusive1611
perplexful1618
distracting1632
distractive1633
perplexivea1637
obstupefying1660
perplexitivea1665
posing1666
distractious1667
nonplussing1670
umbraging1683
gravelling1686
embarrassing1691
wildering1742
distractful1746
staggering1769
baffling1783
bewildering1792
head-scratching1827
mystifyingc1827
mystificatory1830
riddlesome1843
confusing1846
1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica ii. vii. 248 Men shall never give an account of these Great Questions if they deny our Influences,..the Question is so gravelling.
1691 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. 206 The most gravelling Problem of all the Heathen Philosophy.
1720 R. Wodrow Life R. Bruce (1843) 64 This was one of the most gravelling things Mr. Bruce had met with.
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