grit
/ɡɹɪt/ noun C1- 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.
- Sand or a sand–salt mixture spread on wet and, especially, icy roads and footpaths to improve traction.
- Small, hard, inedible particles in food. · These cookies seem to have grit from nutshells in them.
- 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. · I need a sheet of 100 grit sandpaper.
- A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit.
- Strength of mind; courage or fearlessness; fortitude. · That kid with the cast on his arm has the grit to play dodgeball.
From the library
Phillips is a Grit too because Prissy Andrews’s father is one, and Ruby Gillis says that when a man is courting he always has to agree with the girl’s mother in religion and her father in politics.
“I haven’t got the grit to go there and look at a paper in cold blood,” he told Anne.
Lynde wanted to know what else you could expect with a Tory superintendent of education at the head of affairs, and Matthew, noting Anne’s paleness and indifference and the lagging steps that bore her home from the post office every afternoon, began seriously to wonder if he hadn’t better vote Grit at the next election.
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