Definition of Grit

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Definition of Grit

Grit

Sand or gravel; rough, hard particles.

The coarse part of meal.

Grain, esp. oats or wheat, hulled and coarsely ground; in high milling, fragments of cracked wheat smaller than groats.

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.

Structure, as adapted to grind or sharpen; as, a hone of good grit.

Firmness of mind; invincible spirit; unyielding courage; fortitude.

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

To grind; to rub harshly together; to grate; as, to grit the teeth.

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Grit Quotations

In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth.
Yasser Arafat

The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else.
Brian May

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
Jessamyn West

Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask.
Morley Safer

It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he handed me his guitar. I played it, loved it, and then found out that he'd made it himself.
Tom Chapin

Grit Translations

grit in Dutch is grind, gravel, gruis, steengruis
grit in Finnish is sora
grit in French is gravier
grit in German is Kies, Kies, Streusand
grit in Swedish is gott gry, grus, gry

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