shraven.
/ʃreɪv/ local.
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shrave1858
1858 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 19 i. 187 The subsoil varies from a stiff yellow clay to what is called shrave, which consists of innumerable fragments of flaky pieces of mixed clay and sand.
Derivatives
shravy adj. (also shravey)
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > stony material > [adjective] > gravel shingle > gravel
gravellya1382
gravelousc1420
gravelish1530
channelly1623
shravy1793
1793 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Sussex 12 This land is provincially called Shravey, stoney, or gravelly.
1850 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 11 i. 81 Shravy land, flinty and gravelly.
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