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:

     There were wide, gravelled driveways among the graves.

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.