gravel-blind
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.64 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
More than partially blind, but not completely blind.
Example Sentences
- "O heauens, this is my true begotten Father, who being more then sand-blinde, high grauel blinde, knows me not, I will trie confusions with him."
- "A deaf man may be anything from hard of hearing to as deaf as a post; a blind man may be as blind as a bat or an owl; he may be gravel-blind or stone-blind; a bald man as bald as a coot or as a billiard ball."
Etymology
By analogy with sand-blind ("partly blind") and stone-blind ("entirely blind"), with the latter also formed by analogy.