gravelled

English

Verb

gravelled

1. simple past and past participle of gravel

Adjective

gravelled

1. Alternative form of graveled (“covered with gravel”)
   • 1942, Emily Carr, “Cemetery”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:

     There were wide, gravelled driveways among the graves.

   • 2004, Gary Lutz, “Uncle”, in Peter Conners, editor, PP/FF: An Anthology, Buffalo, N.Y.: Starcherone Books, published 2006, →ISBN, page 179:

     I would have to remind her, counteringly, that you don’t pick the person who fronts your life—you get picked, you watch the picker’s ankles vanish into the scrunched socks afterward (his whole body going blank behind the blue-black of the uniform), and the picker goes off in the starkest of transportations: you keep an ear cocked ever after for the return of his van and its paraphernalian clatter in the gravelled driveway.

2. Alternative form of graveled (“perplexed, baffled, annoyed”)
   • 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC:

     I thought Alan would be gravelled at that, for we lacked the means of writing in that desert.