Grit

Noun

 * 1) Collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, swarf from metalworking.
 * The flower beds were white with grit from sand blasting the flagstone walkways.
 * 1) Inedible particles in food.
 * Tastes like grit from nut shells in these cookies.
 * 1) A character trait that encompasses courage, fearlessness, or guts.
 * That kid with the cast on his arm has the grit to play dodgeball.
 * 1) A measure of relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper.
 * I need a sheet of 100 grit sandpaper.

Derived terms

 * grits
 * gritty

Related terms

 * grind
 * grindstone
 * sand, sandy, sandblasting

Verb

 * 1) To clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger; apparently only appears in gritting one's teeth.
 * We had no choice but to grit our teeth and get on with it.
 * He has a sleeping disorder and grits his teeth.
 * 1) To cover with grit.

Derived terms

 * grit one's teeth

Noun

 * 1)  husked but unground oats

Related terms

 * grout
 * gruel

Adjectives for Grit
(sand)

blinding; parching; grinding; unpleasant; rough.

Verbs for Grit
brush away—; conceal—; dissolve—; fill with—; free of—; gather—; scour with—; sieve—; sift—; slip on—; sprinkle with—; strain off—; sweep away—; wash away—; —chokes; —impairs; —injures; —irritates; —scratches.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology 1
greot:. Akin to Old Norse grjót:, German Grieß:.

Etymology 2
grytt:

Noun

 * Finnish:, , kivipöly, metallipuru
 * French:


 * German: Split, Schotter, Streu, Grieß, Streumittel, Streugut, Schrot


 * Finnish:


 * German: Ballaststoff, Grieß, Schrot


 * Finnish: sisukkuus,
 * German: Mut, Schneid


 * Italian: grinta


 * Finnish:


 * German: Korn, Körnung

Verb

 * Finnish: narskutella,
 * French: Grincer


 * German: knirschen


 * Finnish:


 * Welsh: graeanu

Noun

 * Finnish:

Anagrams

 * girt
 * trig