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n. Minute rough granules, as of sand or stone.

n. The texture or fineness of sand or stone used in grinding.

n. A coarse hard sandstone used for making grindstones and millstones.

n. Informal Indomitable spirit; pluck.

v. To clamp (the teeth) together.

v. To cover or treat with grit.

verb-intransitive. To make a grinding noise.

n. husked but unground oats

n. coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge

n. Collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, swarf from metalworking.

n. Inedible particles in food.

n. A character trait that encompasses courage, fearlessness, or guts.

n. A measure of relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper.

v. To clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger; apparently only appears in gritting one's teeth.

v. To cover with grit.

n. Sand or gravel; rough, hard particles.

n. The coarse part of meal.

n. Grain, esp. oats or wheat, hulled and coarsely ground; in high milling, fragments of cracked wheat smaller than groats.

n. A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; ; -- called also gritrock and gritstone. The name is also applied to a finer sharp-grained sandstone.

n. Structure, as adapted to grind or sharpen.

n. Firmness of mind; invincible spirit; unyielding courage; fortitude.

verb-intransitive. To give forth a grating sound, as sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.

v. To grind; to rub harshly together; to grate.

n. The coarse part of meal.

n. plural Oats or wheat hulled or coarsely ground; small particles of broken grain; sizings: as, oaten or wheaten grits.

n. Sand or gravel; rough hard particles collectively.

n. Soil; earth.

n. In geology, any silicious rock of which the particles have sharp edges, so that it can be used for grinding.

n. The structure of a stone in regard to fineness and closeness or their opposites: as, a hone of fine grit.

n. Firmness of mind; courage; spirit; resolution; determination; pluck.

n. In Canada, an extreme Liberal: so called by the opposite party.

To give forth a grating sound, as of sand under the feet; grate.

To grate; grind: as, to grit the teeth.

n. A kind of crawfish; the sea-crab.

A Scotch variant of great.

v. cover with a grit

n. fortitude and determination

v. clench together

n. a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone

"There's nothing like being on a third story roof and the fine grit from the shingles acting like marbles under your feet, making you slide toward the edge with nothing to grab to stop your fall ...."

grits    gritted    gritting   

surface    coat    fortitude    clench    sandstone   

berea grit    cocktail grit    altamaha grits    pennant grit    denbighshire grits    calcareous grit    moor grit    harlech grit    foreland grits    gryphite grit   

gruel    sand    grind    sandblasting    grindstone    sandy    grout   

gritted    gritting    gritrock    gritstone   

gritted    gritting    grits    gritty    grit one's teeth   

fortitude    grate    grind    dirt    sand    gravel    powder   

Brit    Kit    Pitt    Pritt    Schlitt    Schmidt    Split    Whit    Witt    Witte   

gravel    débris    oatmeal    soot    dirt    grease    sawdust    macaroni    bacon    flour