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A deposit of earth, sand, or gravel, containing valuable mineral in particles, especially by the side of a river, or in the bed of a mountain torrent. [U.S.]

To travel slowly but steadily; to trudge. Shak.

orce, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers. Nebuchadnezzar plunders the temple of God. South.

To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome. [Obs.] Plunged and graveled with three lines of Seneca. Sir T. Browne.

To impound, as cattle. [Obs. or Scot.] Flavel.

n, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travelers on some recognized route; as, a stage or railway post.

One who posts, or travels expeditiously; a courier. "Posters of the sea and land." Shak.

Haste or speed in traveling, like that of a post or courier. Shak.

The act of traveling post.

One who has charge of a station for the accommodation of travelers; one who supplies post horses.

A circular hole formed in the rocky beds of rivers by the grinding action of stones or gravel whirled round by the water in what was at first a natural depression of the rock.

A Laplander's traveling sledge. See Sledge.

the arterial system, and gradually disappearing in the smaller branches. the pulse wave travels over the arterial system at the rate of about 29.5 feet in a second. H. N. Martin. -- To feel one's pulse. (a) To ascertain, by the sense of feeling, the condition of the arterial pulse. (b) Hence, to sound one's opinion; to…

n eddy; a ripple. Whose stream an easy breath doth seem to blow, Which on the sparkling gravel runs in purles, As though the waves had been of silver curls. Drayton.

; to build; as, to put up a tent, or a house. (j) To lodge; to entertain; as, to put up travelers. -- To put up a job, to arrange a plot. [Slang]

dressed up in my feathers, that the quality may see how pretty they will look in their traveling habits. Addison.

Provided with prey. Now I am bravely quarried. Beau. & Fl.

Gravelly stone. [Prov. Eng.]

iston moves back and forth; -- in distinction from a rotary engine, in which the piston travels continuously in one direction in a circular path. -- Reciprocating motion (Mech.), motion alternately backward and forward, or up and down, as of a piston rod.

In permanent works, an outwork placed within another outwork. See F and i in Illust. of Ravelin. [Written also redout.]