A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking. Example: The flower beds were white with grit from sand blasting the flagstone walkways.
Inedible particles in food. Example: These cookies seem to have grit from nutshells in them.
A measure of the relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper, the smaller the number the coarser the abrasive. Example: I need a sheet of 100 grit sandpaper.
A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit.
Strength of mind; great courage or fearlessness; fortitude. Example: That kid with the cast on his arm has the grit to play dodgeball.
Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger. Example: He has a sleeping disorder and grits his teeth.
To cover with grit.
To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.
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