Grit (?), n. [OE, greet, greot, sand, gravel, AS. greot grit, sant, dust; akin to OS griott, OFries. gret gravel, OHG. grioz, G. griess, Icel. grjot, and to E. groats, grout. See Groats, Grout, and cf. Grail gravel.]
1.
Sand or gravel; rough, hard particles.
2.
The coarse part of meal.
3. pl.
Grain, esp. oats or wheat, hulled and coarsely ground; in high milling, fragments of cracked wheat smaller than groats.
4. Geol.
A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; as, millstone grit; -- called also gritrock and gritstone. The name is also applied to a finer sharp-grained sandstone; as, grindstone grit.
5.
Structure, as adapted to grind or sharpen; as, a hone of good grit.
6.
Firmness of mind; invincible spirit; unyielding courage; fortitude.
C. Reade. E. P. Whipple.
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Grit (?), v. i.
To give forth a grating sound, as sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.
The sanded floor that grits beneath the tread.
Goldsmith.
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Grit, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gritted; p. pr. &, vb. n. Gritting.]
To grind; to rub harshly together; to grate; as, to grit the teeth.
[Collog.]
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