Gravelled
. Iʹm regularly gravelled. Non-plussed, like a ship run aground and unable to move.
“When you were gravelled for lack of matter.”—Shakespeare: As You Like It, iv. 1.
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.