grit

grit has 12 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 4.

Definitions

• 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.
• n.. fortitude and determination; "he didn't have the guts to try it"
• n.. a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone
• v.. clench together; "grit one's teeth"
• v.. cover with a grit; "grit roads"