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Substantiivi

1. A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
2. (usually in the plural) Husked but unground oats.
3. Sand or a sand–salt mixture spread on wet and, especially, icy roads and footpaths to improve traction.
4. (usually in the plural) Coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge.
5. Small, hard, inedible particles in food.
6. A measure of the size of abrasive grains, such as those on sandpaper, and thus their relative coarseness or fineness; the smaller the number, the coarser the abrasive: thus, 60 is rough, 600 is fine, and 3000 is ultrafine.
7. (geology) A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit.
8. (idiomatic) Strength of mind; courage or fearlessness; fortitude.

Verbi

1. Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger.
2. To cover with grit.
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.