gravelとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English gravel, grauel, from Old French gravele, diminutive of grave (“gravel, seashore”), from Medieval Latin grava, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *grāwā (“gravel, pebbles”) (compare Breton groa, Cornish grow, Welsh gro), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰroh₁weh₂, from *gʰreh₁w- (“to grind”). Compare also 古期英語 græfa (“coal”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹævəl/
• 韻: -ævəl

名詞

gravel (usually uncountable, 複数形 gravels)

1. (uncountable) Small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railways, and as ballast.
2. A type or grade of small rocks, differentiated by mineral type, size range, or other characteristics.
3. (uncountable, geology) A particle from 2 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.

   Coordinate terms: (>256 mm) boulder, (64–256 mm) cobble, (62.5 μm – 2 mm) sand, (3.9–62.5 μm) silt, (0.98–3.9 μm) clay, (0.95–977 nm) colloid

4. (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.
5. A lameness in the foot of a horse, usually caused by an abscess.
   • 1817, William Johnson, editor, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature, E. F. Backus, page 211:

     The defendant below hired the horse to go from Cocksackie to Schodack, and the next day after his arrival at the latter place, the horse was found to be lame in one foot; and the lameness increasing, the defendant below was obliged to leave the horse there, and hire another with which to return. About four weeks after, the horse was brought home, and showed signs of gravel working out above the hoof.

   • 1972, James Herriot, All Creatures Great and Small, St. Martin's Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 22:

     'Looks like pus in the foot to me.'
     'I'll bet you're right,' Farnon said. 'They call it gravel around here, by the way. What do you suggest we do about it?'

6. (rare) Inability to see at night; night blindness.
   • 1943, Bell Irvin Wiley, The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 255:

     A malady that was rare, but which because of its peculiarity elicited much comment, was "night blindness" or "gravel."

7. (uncountable, cycling) gravel cycling, a discipline in cycling different from road cycling, mountain biking or cyclocross, for a large part on gravel roads, typically with a dedicated gravel bike

同意語

• (small stones または pebbles): chisel/chessil
• (calculus deposit): stones, gallstones

派生語

関連する語

• gravel-blind

参考

• alluvium

動詞

gravel (三人称単数 現在形 gravels, 現在分詞 gravelling または graveling, 過去形および過去分詞形 gravelled または graveled)

1. (transitive) To apply a layer of gravel to the surface of a road, etc.
   • 1905, John F. Hume, The Abolitionists‎^[1]:

     We kept quietly on our way until we reached a place in the road that had been freshly graveled, and where the surface was covered with stones just suited to our use.

2. To puzzle or annoy.
   • 1922, Herbert Quick, Vandemark's Folly‎^[2]:

     It graveled me like sixty to pay such a price, but I had to do it because the season was just between hay and grass.

3. To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.
   • 1605, William Camden, “Grave Speeches and wittie Apothegms of worthy Personages of this Realm in former times,” in Remaines Concerning Britain, London: Simon Miller, sixth impression, 1657, p. 243, ^[3]

     William Conqerour when he invaded this Iland, chanced at his arrival to be gravelled, and one of his feet stuck so fast in the sand, that he fell to the ground.

4. To check or stop; to confound; to perplex.
   • 1579, Sir Thomas North, tr., Plutarch's Lives, The Life of Marcus Antonius:

     The physician was so gravelled and amazed withal, that he had not a word more to say.

   • c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:

     When you were gravelled for lack of matter.

   • 1830, Joseph Plumb Martin, “Ch. VIII”, in A Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier:

     […] I arrived at a spot where I was completely gravelled, and could go no farther one way or the other; […]

5. To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.

使用する際の注意点

• In North American English, the forms graveled and graveling are more common.

アナグラム

• glaver