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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Grit \Grit\, noun [OE, greet, greot, sand, gravel, AS. gre['o]t grit, sant, dust; akin to OS griott, OFries. gret gravel, OHG. grioz, G. griess, Icel. grj[=o]t, 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Grit \Grit\ (gr[i^]t), verb (used without an object) To give forth a grating sound, as sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.
The sanded floor that grits beneath the tread. --Goldsmith.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Grit \Grit\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Gritted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gritting}.] To grind; to rub harshly together; to grate; as, to grit the teeth. [Collog.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
grit
noun
1: a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone [syn: {gritrock}, {gritstone}]
2: fortitude and determination; "he didn't have the guts to try it" [syn: {backbone}, {guts}, {moxie}, {sand}, {gumption}]
verb
1: cover with a grit; "grit roads"
2: clench together; "grit one's teeth" [also: {gritting}, {gritted}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
89 Moby Thesaurus words for "grit": air pollution, attritus, backbone, bottle, bottom, bran, bravery, breccia, chafe, chutzpah, cosmic dust, courage, courageousness, crumb, crumble, dauntlessness, debris, determination, detritus, doughtiness, dust, dust ball, efflorescence, exacerbate, fallout, farina, fearlessness, filings, firmness, flour, fortitude, fret, gall, gameness, grain, granule, granulet, grate, grate on, gravel, grits, groats, guts, gutsiness, guttiness, hardihood, hardiness, heart, heart of oak, intestinal fortitude, intrepidity, intrepidness, irritate, kittens, lint, meal, mettle, mettlesomeness, moxie, nerve, pith, pluck, pluckiness, powder, provoke, pussies, rasp, raspings, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, sand, sawdust, set on edge, shingle, smut, soot, spirit, spunk, spunkiness, stalwartness, stamina, starch, staunchness, stout heart, tenacity, toughness, true grit, valor
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