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Earth :: Earth (n.) The softer inorganic matter composing part of the surface of the globe, in distinction from the firm rock; soil of all kinds, including gravel, clay, loam, and the like; sometimes, soil favorable to the growth of plants; the visible surface of the globe; the ground; as, loose earth; rich earth..

Graveling :: Graveling (n.) Alt. of Gravellin.

Ratchel :: Ratchel (n.) Gravelly stone.

Placer :: Placer (n.) A deposit of earth, sand, or gravel, containing valuable mineral in particles, especially by the side of a river, or in the bed of a mountain torrent..

Grail :: Grail (n.) Small particles of earth; gravel.

Pan :: Pan (v. i.) To yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; -- usually with out; as, the gravel panned out richly..

Deeply :: Deeply (adv.) Gravely; with low or deep tone; as, a deeply toned instrument..

Till :: Till (n.) A deposit of clay, sand, and gravel, without lamination, formed in a glacier valley by means of the waters derived from the melting glaciers; -- sometimes applied to alluvium of an upper river terrace, when not laminated, and appearing as if formed in the same manner..

Gravelling :: Gravelling (n.) The act of covering with gravel.

Ballast :: Ballast (v. t.) To fill in, as the bed of a railroad, with gravel, stone, etc., in order to make it firm and solid..

Graveling :: Graveling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Grave.

Strale :: Strake (n.) A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder..

Gravel :: Gravel (v. t.) To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.

Screen :: Screen (v. t.) To pass, as coal, gravel, ashes, etc., through a screen in order to separate the coarse from the fine, or the worthless from the valuable; to sift..

Gravel :: Gravel (n.) A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom..

Embankment :: Embankment (n.) A structure of earth, gravel, etc., raised to prevent water from overflowing a level tract of country, to retain water in a reservoir, or to carry a roadway, etc..

Grit :: Grit (n.) Sand or gravel; rough, hard particles..

Growan :: Growan (n.) A decomposed granite, forming a mass of gravel, as in tin lodes in Cornwall..

Gravelly :: Gravelly (a.) Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel; as, a gravelly soil..

Pit :: Pit (n.) A large hole in the ground from which material is dug or quarried; as, a stone pit; a gravel pit; or in which material is made by burning; as, a lime pit; a charcoal pit..

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