*ravel*

n. [ F. caravelle (cf. It. caravella, Sp. carabela), fr. Sp. caraba a kind of vessel, fr. L. carabus a kind of light boat, fr. Gr. ka`rabos a kind of light ship, NGr. kara`bi ship, vessel. ] [ written also carvel and caravelle. ] (Naut.) A name given to several kinds of vessels. (a) The caravel of the 16th century was a small vessel with broad bows, high, narrow poop, four masts, and lateen sails. Columbus commanded three caravels on his great voyage. (b) A Portuguese vessel of 100 or 150 tons burden. (c) A small fishing boat used on the French coast. (d) A Turkish man-of-war. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. gravele, akin to F. gr?ve a sandy shore, strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor. grouan gravel, W. gro coarse gravel, pebbles, and Skr. grāvan stone. ] 1. Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Graveled r Gravelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Graveling or Gravelling. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To cover with gravel; as, to gravel a walk. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand. [ 1913 Webster ]

When we were fallen into a place between two seas, they graveled the ship. Acts xxvii. 41 (Rhemish version). [ 1913 Webster ]

Willam the Conqueror . . . chanced as his arrival to be graveled; and one of his feet stuck so fast in the sand that he fell to the ground. Camden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

When you were graveled for lack of matter. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The physician was so graveled and amazed withal, that he had not a word more to say. Sir T. North. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without a grave; unburied.

n. State of being gravelly. [ 1913 Webster ]

or , n. 1. The act of covering with gravel. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A layer or coating of gravel (on a path, etc.).

or , n. (Zool.) A salmon one or two years old, before it has gone to sea. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel; as, a gravelly soil. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A pebble, or small fragment of stone; a calculus. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a grave manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. not visited by many travelers; as, the tourist's desire to visit less-traveled countries. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To exceed in speed or distance traveled. Mad. D' Arblay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Raveled r Ravelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Raveling or Ravelling. ] [ OD. ravelen, D. rafelen, akin to LG. rebeln, rebbeln, reffeln. ] 1. To separate or undo the texture of; to unravel; to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a stocking. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sleep, that knits up the raveled sleave of care. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To undo the intricacies of; to disentangle. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To pull apart, as the threads of a texture, and let them fall into a tangled mass; hence, to entangle; to make intricate; to involve. [ 1913 Webster ]

What glory's due to him that could divide
Such raveled interests? has the knot untied? Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

The faith of very many men seems a duty so weak and indifferent, is so often untwisted by violence, or raveled and entangled in weak discourses! Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To become untwisted or unwoven; to be disentangled; to be relieved of intricacy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fall into perplexity and confusion. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Till, by their own perplexities involved,
They ravel more, still less resolved. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To make investigation or search, as by picking out the threads of a woven pattern. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The humor of raveling into all these mystical or entangled matters. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Also raveller. ] One who ravels. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F.; cf. Sp. rebellin, It. revellino, rivellino; perhaps fr. L. re- again + vallum wall. ] (Fort.) A detached work with two embankments which make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune and half-moon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Also ravelling. ] 1. The act of untwisting or of disentangling. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is raveled out; esp., a thread detached from a texture. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the process of travelling in or into outer space. [ PJC ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Traveled r Travelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Traveling or Travelling. ] [ Properly, to labor, and the same word as travail. ] 1. To labor; to travail. [ Obsoles. ] Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health; he is traveling in California. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To pass; to go; to move. [ 1913 Webster ]

Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To journey over; to traverse; as, to travel the continent. “I travel this profound.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To force to journey. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

They shall not be traveled forth of their own franchises. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of traveling, or journeying from place to place; a journey. [ 1913 Webster ]

With long travel I am stiff and weary. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

His travels ended at his country seat. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. An account, by a traveler, of occurrences and observations during a journey; as, a book of travels; -- often used as the title of a book; as, Travels in Italy. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mach.) The length of stroke of a reciprocating piece; as, the travel of a slide valve. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Labor; parturition; travail. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having made journeys; having gained knowledge or experience by traveling; hence, knowing; experienced. [ Written also travelled. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The traveled thane, Athenian Aberdeen. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Written also traveler. ] 1. One who travels; one who has traveled much. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mach.) A traveling crane. See under Crane. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Spinning) The metal loop which travels around the ring surrounding the bobbin, in a ring spinner. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Naut.) An iron encircling a rope, bar, spar, or the like, and sliding thereon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Traveler's joy (Bot.), the Clematis vitalba, a climbing plant with white flowers. --
Traveler's tree. (Bot.) See Ravenala. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Harassed; fatigued with travel. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- (intensive) + ravel. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To disentangle; to disengage or separate the threads of; as, to unravel a stocking. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, to clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve; as, to unravel a plot. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To separate the connected or united parts of; to throw into disorder; to confuse. “Art shall be conjured for it, and nature all unraveled.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become unraveled, in any sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of unraveling, or the state of being unraveled. [ 1913 Webster ]