GRAVEL

A term applied to a well-known material of small stones, which vary in size from a small pea to a walnut or something larger. It is often intermixed with other substances, such as sand, clay, loam, flints, pebbles, iron ores, ., from each of which it derives a distinctive appellation See Geology. Gravel. In Gardening, gravel is an important article, 2 L [s. 543]