Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
GRAVEL
gravel, crushed rock
(noun) rock fragments and pebbles
perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound
(verb) be a mystery or bewildering to; “This beats me!”; “Got me--I don’t know the answer!”; “a vexing problem”; “This question really stuck me”
gravel
(verb) cover with gravel; “We gravelled the driveway”
annoy, rag, get to, bother, get at, irritate, rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex, chafe, devil
(verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations; “Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me”; “It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
gravel (usually uncountable, plural gravels)
(uncountable) Small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railways, and as ballast.
A type or grade of small rocks, differentiated by mineral type, size range, or other characteristics.
(uncountable, geology) A particle from 2 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
(uncountable, archaic) Kidney stones; a deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom.
Synonyms
• (small stones or pebbles): chisel/chessil
• (calculus deposit): stones, gallstones
Verb
gravel (third-person singular simple present gravels, present participle graveling or gravelling, simple past and past participle graveled or gravelled)
(transitive) To apply a layer of gravel to the surface of a road, etc.
To puzzle or annoy
To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.
To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex.
To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.
Usage notes
• In North American English, the forms graveled and graveling are more common.
Anagrams
• glaver
Proper noun
Gravel (plural Gravels)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Gravel is the 13583rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2232 individuals. Gravel is most common among White (95.39%) individuals.
Anagrams
• glaver
Source: Wiktionary
Grav"el, n. Etym: [OF. gravele, akin to F. grve a sandy shore, strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor. grouan gravel, W. gro coarse gravel, pebbles, and Skr. gravan stone.]
1. Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.
2. (Med.)
Definition: A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder.
Grav"el, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Graveled or Gravelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Graveling or Gravelling.]
1. To cover with gravel; as, to gravel a walk.
2. To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand. When we were fallen into a place between two seas, they graveled the ship. Acts xxvii. 41 (Rhemish version). Willam the Conqueror . . . chanced as his arrival to be graveled; and one of his feet stuck so fast in the sand that he fell to the ground. Camden.
3. To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex. [Colloq.] When you were graveled for lack of matter. Shak. The physician was so graveled and amazed withal, that he had not a word more to say. Sir T. North.
4. To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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