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Gravelled

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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.

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Grassmarket
Grassum or Gersome
Gratiano
Grave
Grave
Grave-diggers (Hamlet)
Grave Maurice
Grave Searchers
Grave as a Judge
Grave as an Owl
Gravelled
Gray
Gray Cloak
Gray Man’s Path
Gray’s Inn (London)
Grayham’s
Graysteel
Greal (San)
Grease One’s Fist or Palm (To)
Greasy Sunday
Great (The)