grit
/ɡɹɪt/
Frequency: 3.43 in modern English
Meaning
noun
A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
Uncountable
noun
A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
Uncountable
noun
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
noun
A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit.
Uncountable
verb
To cover with grit.
Example Sentences
- "The flower beds were white with grit from sand blasting the flagstone walkways."
- "These cookies seem to have grit from nutshells in them."
- "I need a sheet of 100 grit sandpaper."
- "That kid with the cast on his arm has the grit to play dodgeball."
- "They came to a rising ground , not sharp , but long ; and here youth and grit and sober living told more than ever."
- "If you are overcome by a man of grit, he insolently makes you conscious of your own weakness"
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Wiktionary places this term in Food.