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Grout

//ɡɹʌut// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A thin mortar used to fill the gaps between tiles and cavities in masonry. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    a thin mortar that can be poured and used to fill cracks in masonry or brickwork wordnet
  3. 3
    Coarse meal; groats. archaic, countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    Dregs, sediment. archaic, countable, in-plural, uncountable

    "grouts of tea"

  5. 5
    A kind of beer or ale. UK, countable, obsolete, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To insert mortar between tiles. transitive

    "I spent the whole afternoon grouting the kitchen floor."

  2. 2
    bind with grout wordnet
  3. 3
    To affix with mortar. transitive

    "The year before the pandemic, a sump tank attached to a waste pond sprang a leak and had to be grouted shut."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English growte, grut, from Old English grūt (“dregs; coarse meal”), from Proto-West Germanic *grūt, from Proto-Germanic *grūtą (compare Dutch gruit (“dregs”), German Grauß, Norwegian grut (“ground”)), lengthening of Proto-Germanic *grutą, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to grind, rub”). Related to grit.

Etymology 2

From Middle English growte, grut, from Old English grūt (“dregs; coarse meal”), from Proto-West Germanic *grūt, from Proto-Germanic *grūtą (compare Dutch gruit (“dregs”), German Grauß, Norwegian grut (“ground”)), lengthening of Proto-Germanic *grutą, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to grind, rub”). Related to grit.

Etymology 3

English surname, from the noun grout.

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