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Grit
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- 1 Of or belonging to the Liberal Party of Canada. Canadian, not-comparable
- 1 A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking. uncountable
"The flower beds were white with grit from sand blasting the flagstone walkways."
- 2 Husked but unground oats. plural-normally
- 3 A member or supporter of the Liberal Party of Canada or one of its provincial wings (except for the Quebec provincial wing). Canadian
- 4 fortitude and determination wordnet
- 5 A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.; Sand or a sand–salt mixture spread on wet and, especially, icy roads and footpaths to improve traction. uncountable
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- 6 Coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge. plural-normally
"grits and eggs"
- 7 a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone wordnet
- 8 Small, hard, inedible particles in food. uncountable
"These cookies seem to have grit from nutshells in them."
- 9 A measure of the size of abrasive grains, such as those on sandpaper, and thus their relative coarseness or fineness; the smaller the number, the coarser the abrasive: thus, 60 is rough, 600 is fine, and 3000 is ultrafine. uncountable
"I need a sheet of 100 grit sandpaper."
- 10 A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit. uncountable
- 11 Strength of mind; courage or fearlessness; fortitude. idiomatic, uncountable
"That kid with the cast on his arm has the grit to play dodgeball."
- 1 To clench (one's teeth), particularly in reaction to pain or anger. ergative, transitive
"We had no choice but to grit our teeth and get on with it."
- 2 clench together wordnet
- 3 To cover with grit.
- 4 cover with a grit wordnet
- 5 To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind. intransitive, obsolete
"The sanded floor that grits beneath the tread"
Etymology
With early modern vowel shortening, from Middle English grete, griet, from Old English grēot, from Proto-West Germanic *greut, from Proto-Germanic *greutą. Compare grist.
With early modern vowel shortening, from Middle English grete, griet, from Old English grēot, from Proto-West Germanic *greut, from Proto-Germanic *greutą. Compare grist.
From Middle English *gryt (“bran, chaff”), from Old English grytt, from Proto-West Germanic *gruti (“coarsely ground bits”), ablaut variant of Proto-Indo-European *gʰrewd-. See above. Doublet of goetta.
After the Clear Grits, 19th-century reformers so named because they wanted members who were "all sand and no dirt, clear grit all the way through".
After the Clear Grits, 19th-century reformers so named because they wanted members who were "all sand and no dirt, clear grit all the way through".
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