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noun

Grit n.

Sand or gravel; rough, hard particles.

The coarse part of meal.

pl. Grain, esp. oats or wheat, hulled and coarsely ground; in high milling, fragments of cracked wheat smaller than groats.

(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.

Structure, as adapted to grind or sharpen; as, a hone of good grit.

Firmness of mind; invincible spirit; unyielding courage; fortitude.

verb

Grit v. t. (past & past part. gritted; pres. part. gritting) To grind; to rub harshly together; to grate; as, to grit the teeth. (Collog.)

Grit v. i. To give forth a grating sound, as sand under the feet; to grate; to grind. "The sanded floor that grits beneath the tread."

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"Grit" Quotes from Famous Books

... to a sensible alternative—he read and re-read the old page. He tried to understand it line by line. He was humbled; filled with shame at his meaningless attitude of the past, and acknowledged that the grit in him, that he had hoped was sand, was, after all, the dirt that could easily defile. He must begin anew and rebuild. He must take nothing for granted in himself. Having arrived at that conclusion, ...

— The Shield of Silence • Harriet T. Comstock

... and came prancing back, and ran his head into the beggar's stomach, and that doubled him up, and so we all got away. But," concluded the speaker, turning towards his wounded comrade, "I never thought old Mug had so much grit in him before; he stuck to it like ...

— The Triple Alliance • Harold Avery

... Lick, and Patoka. Surface, hilly and broken,—limestone rock,—springs of water, of which Half-moon and French Lick are curiosities. On the alluvial bottoms, the soil is loamy,—on the hills, calcareous, and inclined to clay. Excellent stones for grit, equal to the Turkey oil stones, are found in ...

— A New Guide for Emigrants to the West • J. M. Peck

... it all is that the one who has indulged and spoiled the baby usually does not possess the requisite nerve, grit, and will power to carry out the necessary program for baby's cure. And the pity of it all is that overindulgence in babyhood so often means wrecked nerves and shattered happiness in later life. So, fond, indulgent parents, do your offspring the very great kindness to fight it out with ...

— The Mother and Her Child • William S. Sadler

... like I do; I ain't been in service all these years for nothin'. I tell yer, if there wasn't no danger they'd a sent one o' them blessed blacks to interprit instead o' you. They knows you've got the grit, so they sends you, and it's odds yer don't come back with ...

— Under the Rebel's Reign • Charles Neufeld

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