Usually means: Rough, coarse texture; harsh sounding.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word gravelly:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. gravelly: Merriam-Webster
  2. gravelly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gravelly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gravelly: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gravelly: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gravelly, gravelly: Wordnik
  7. gravelly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gravelly: Wiktionary
  9. gravelly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gravelly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gravelly: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gravelly, gravelly: Dictionary.com
  13. gravelly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Gravelly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. gravelly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. gravelly: Rhymezone
  17. Gravelly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. gravelly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. gravelly: FreeDictionary.org
  20. gravelly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. gravelly: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. gravelly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gravelly: Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gravelly: Canadian Soil Information System

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Full of, covered with, or similar to gravel or pebbles.
adjective:  Of a voice: unpleasantly harsh or rasping.
adjective:  (pathology) Caused by or involving gravel (“kidney stones”).
adjective:  (obsolete) Full of or covered with sand; sandy.

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