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Definition of Gravelly
1. Adjective. Abounding in small stones. "Landed at a shingly little beach"
2. Adjective. Unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound. "A gravelly voice"
Similar to: Cacophonic, Cacophonous
Derivative terms: Rasp, Roughness, Scratch
Definition of Gravelly
1. a. Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel; as, a gravelly soil.
Definition of Gravelly
1. Adjective. Full of, or covered with gravel or pebbles ¹
2. Adjective. (context: of a voice) Unpleasantly harsh or rasping ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gravelly
1. containing gravel [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gravelly
Literary usage of Gravelly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"Rocky banks and gravelly shores, Arctic Am., s. to Nfd., e. Que., and Col. ...
Limestone ledges and gravelly shores, e. Que. to Hudson В., e. to s. ..."
2. Census Reports Tenth Census. June 1, 1880 by Francis Amasa Walker, Charles Williams Seaton, Henry Gannett (1884)
"uplands, except that they are, in general, rather poorer and more sandy; but
since a line of gravelly hills, timbered with oaks and long-leaf pine, ..."
3. Prince George's County by Jay Allan Bonsteel, William Henry Alexander, Benjamin Le Roy Miller, Frederick Haynes Newell, Louis Agricola Bauer, Fred Wilson Besley (1911)
"The Leonardtown gravelly loam occupies an area of about 6 square miles, ...
The original plant growth on the Leonardtown gravelly loam has been quite ..."
4. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"gravelly, S. by the name of grey oats, which are only valuable, because they yield a
... gravelly, ibid. To CHANNER, rn To fret, to be in a chiding humour, ..."
5. The New England Gazetteer: Containing Descriptions of All the States ...by John Hayward by John Hayward (1839)
"The soil -is a gravelly loam, with an uneven surface. ... The soil is a strong
gravelly loam, and, productive of grass and grain. It is watered by Saugatuck ..."
6. A Complete Descriptive and Statistical Gazetteer of the United States of by Daniel Haskel, John Calvin Smith (1843)
"The surface is elevated, and in Rome part« mountainous ; soil, generally gravelly
loam, and fertile. Watered by Housatonic r. and ¡tu branches, and branchée ..."
7. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"It will also develop exceptionally well upon gravelly or stony loams, if deep
and well drained. Heavy poorly drained soils should be avoided. ..."
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