Chapter Grassation to Gravel of G by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

5. To entomb; to bury. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Lie full low, graved in the hollow ground.

Shak.

Grave
(Grave), v. i. To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.

Grave
(Grave), n. [AS. gr?f, fr. grafan to dig; akin to D. & OS. graf, G. grab, Icel. gröf, Russ. grob' grave, coffin. See Grave to carve.] An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction.

He bad lain in the grave four days.

John xi. 17.

Grave wax, adipocere.

Graveclothes
(Grave"clothes`) n. pl. The clothes or dress in which the dead are interred.

Gravedigger
(Grave"dig`ger) n.

1. A digger of graves.

2. (Zoöl.) See Burying beetle, under Bury, v. t.

Gravel
(Grav"el) n. [OF. gravele, akin to F. gr?ve 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.) 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.

Gravel
(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

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.