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Definition of 'grit'English
Etymology 1
With early modern vowel shortening, from (etyl) grete, griet, from (etyl) ‘lump’).
Noun
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Collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, swarf from metalworking.
- The flower beds were white with grit from sand blasting the flagstone walkways.
Inedible particles in food.
- It tastes like grit from nutshells in these cookies.
Firmness of mind; invincible spirit; unyielding courage or fearlessness; fortitude.
- That kid with the cast on his arm has the grit to play dodgeball.
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A measure of relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper.
- I need a sheet of 100 grit sandpaper.
(geology) A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, to a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g. grindstone grit .
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* sand, sandy, sandblasting
See also
* debris
* mortar and pestle
* swarf
Verb
To clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger; apparently only appears in gritting one's teeth .
- We had no choice but to grit our teeth and get on with it.
- He has a sleeping disorder and grits his teeth.
To cover with grit .
To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.
* Goldsmith
- The sanded floor that grits beneath the tread.
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Etymology 2
(etyl) gryt ‘bran, chaff’, from (etyl) grytt, from (etyl) . See above.
Noun
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(usually in plural) husked]] but unground [[oat|oats
(usually in plural) coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge
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Anagrams
* girt
* trig
Similar to 'grit'great, grout, greet, girt, grot, groat, grat, griot, gart, gert, greit, gurt, gruit
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