Friday, 24 December 2010

Gravelled

   
In former times to be gravelled meant to be perplexed. The word was still in common usage in Victorian times.
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1 comment:

  1. Librarian24 December 2010 at 07:15

    That's interesting! I always thought is means a surface covered in gravel, like a gravelled drive leading up to a house.

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