Converse of object

• overlie: Most of the Parks lies on light soils overlying gravel, limiting the range of plant material which can be grown.

• spawn: Spawning gravels were placed at the tail of the pool.

• dredge: These lines lead to apparatus designed to fill wagons with the gravel dredged from the Thames.

• rake: Water and landscape elements are symbolized by fifteen rocks set in raked gravel.

Adjective modifier

• coarse: Secondly the soils are normally well graded giving a even spread of coarse gravel through to fine sands.

• glacial: The pit also has glacial gravels at the top from the Pleistocene.

• loose: A member who was cycling home from work, rode onto the grass at the side of the road to avoid some loose gravel.

• sandy: What is the minimum depth of foundation in sandy gravel?

Modifies a noun

• pit: Many of these old gravel pits have filled with water, leaving lakes next to the river.

• extraction: The lake was formed by the flooding of a 64 acre gravel extraction site.

• driveway: A gravel driveway leads past the rear of the cottages to a parking area to the side of which is a single garage.

• trap: He later blamed his visit to the gravel trap on a missed gear.

• quarry: We had lunch on the move and stopped by the gravel quarry before White Mills Lock.

• path: The wide track now becomes a raised gravel path.

Noun used with modifier

• pea: Pea gravel will gravitate to the bottom of the slope.

• river: These are river bed gravels mixed with lime to give the mortar strength.