A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
The flower beds were white with grit from sand blasting the flagstone walkways.
Husked but unground oats.
A member or supporter of the Liberal Party of Canada or one of its provincial wings (except for the Quebec provincial wing).
Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger.
We had no choice but to grit our teeth and get on with it.
Of or belonging to the Liberal Party of Canada.
With early modern vowel shortening, from Middle English grete, griet, from Old English grēot, from Proto-West Germanic *greut, from Proto-Germanic *greutą. Compare grist.
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To cover with grit.
To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.
The sanded floor that grits beneath the tread