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A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.

Example: The flower beds were white with grit from sand blasting the flagstone walkways.

Inedible particles in food.

Example: These cookies seem to have grit from nutshells in them.

A measure of the relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper, the smaller the number the coarser the abrasive.

Example: 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.

Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger.

Example: He has a sleeping disorder and grits his teeth.

To cover with grit.

To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.

(usually in the plural) Husked but unground oats.

(usually in the plural) Coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge.