Grit

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·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.

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