noun, masculine/ɡʁa.vje/plural: graviers
gravel (small fragments of rock); crushed rocks between 5 and 40 mm in diameter (used on unpaved roads, in gardens to increase drainage, etc.); gravel, kidney stones, gallstones; beach woman, shoreman (individual who spreads out and dries cod on a (gravel) beach)
From Old French grave + -ier.