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Meanings of gravelly bottom in English

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Usage of gravelly bottom in English
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Half a mile up the wash the gravelly bottom changed to loose stones.
Bloom of Cactus
2
The box rested closely on the gravelly bottom, and was fastened to the posts.
Driven Back to Eden
3
Ages ago it was the gravelly bottom of a sea.
Madam How and Lady Why; Or, First Lessons in Earth Lore for Chil...
4
Even more perfect was it, by reason of its gravelly bottom, for another form of watermanship.
The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1
5
This was soon traversed, and they then found themselves on a tolerably firm, level, gravelly bottom.
The Log of the Flying Fish: A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peri...
6
There's a gravelly bottom and it's not deep.
A Mating in the Wilds
7
So in this case the boys could see the fish distinctly, and also the gravelly bottom of the lake.
Three Boys in the Wild North Land
8
It was an odd, forbidding place, and the farther up the gravelly bottom they rode, the more forbidding it became.
Cow-Country
9
Most people fish only the eastern side, whereof a few score yards are open, with a rocky and gravelly bottom.
Angling Sketches
10
There is a small rocky shoal in the center of the ground; the remainder of this piece has a gravelly bottom.
Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine
11
It is a ridge of rocky and gravelly bottom having depths of 35 to 50 fathoms.
Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine
12
It is a "blistery" ground, the presence of these growths on a rocky or gravelly bottom usually meaning good fishing.
Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine
13
A number of the female fish were first observed slowly passing through the clear waters and depositing their roe on the gravelly bottom.
Three Boys in the Wild North Land
14
The course of the river was a little to the north of east; it ran about five miles an hour, over a gravelly bottom.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mou...
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Over the rest of the ground the average depths run from 35 to 40 fathoms over a gravelly bottom.
Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine
16
Here are depths of from 75 to 80 fathoms over a hard gravelly bottom, the shoalest water being some 65 fathoms.
Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine
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