Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, one of the small concretions constituting gravel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A pebble, or small fragment of stone; a calculus.
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Examples
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"He never paid any more attention to me than a gravel-stone under his feet; there ain't any reason why I should have cared about him, and I don't; it can't be that I do."
The Portion of Labor Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 1891
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If he had ever kept bees himself, or even visited an apiary, it is hard to see how he could have believed that the bee in its flight abroad carried a gravel-stone for ballast:
The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton John Burroughs 1879
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It is commenced by one of the players who encloses a gravel-stone or a bullet in the curve of his two hands by placing the palms together, then, after sundry tosts and evolutions, suddenly parting them.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841
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"After many ceremonies he will produce from his mouth some strange substance, such as a thorn or gravel-stone, a fish-bone or bird's claw, a snake's tooth, or a piece of wire, which some malicious _yauhahu_ is supposed to have inserted in the affected part.
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897
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