·noun The coarse part of meal.
II. Grit ·noun Sand or gravel; rough, hard particles.
III. Grit ·noun Firmness of mind; invincible spirit; unyielding courage; fortitude.
IV. Grit ·noun Structure, as adapted to grind or sharpen; as, a hone of good grit.
V. Grit ·vt To Grind; to rub harshly together; to Grate; as, to grit the teeth.
VI. Grit ·noun Grain, ·esp. oats or wheat, hulled and coarsely ground; in high milling, fragments of cracked wheat smaller than groats.
VII. Grit ·vi To give forth a grating sound, as sand under the feet; to Grate; to Grind.
VIII. Grit ·noun 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.