(n.) Sand or gravel; rough, hard particles.
(n.) The coarse part of meal.
(n.) Grain, esp. oats or wheat, hulled and coarsely ground; in
high milling, fragments of cracked wheat smaller than groats.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Structure, as adapted to grind or sharpen; as, a hone of good
grit.
(n.) Firmness of mind; invincible spirit; unyielding courage;
fortitude.
(v. i.) To give forth a grating sound, as sand under the feet; to
grate; to grind.
(v. t.) To grind; to rub harshly together; to grate; as, to grit
the teeth.
