Usually means: Material ground in a mill.
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  1. grist: Merriam-Webster
  2. grist: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. grist: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. grist: Collins English Dictionary
  5. grist: Vocabulary.com
  6. Grist, grist: Wordnik
  7. grist: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. grist: Wiktionary
  9. grist: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. grist: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. grist: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Grist, grist: Dictionary.com
  13. grist: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Grist (magazine), Grist: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Grist: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. grist: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. grist: Rhymezone
  18. Grist: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. grist: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Grist: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. grist: FreeDictionary.org
  22. grist: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. grist: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. grist: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Epicurus.com Beer Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. grist: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. GRIST: Acronym Finder
  2. grist: Idioms

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  1. Grist: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Beer & Brewing Terminology (No longer online)
  2. Explosives (No longer online)
  3. Grist: Brew Monkey Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (grist)

noun:  Grain that is to be ground in a mill.
noun:  (obsolete) A group of bees.
noun:  (colloquial, obsolete) Supply; provision.
noun:  (ropemaking) A given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands.
verb:  (transitive) To grind in a mill.
noun:  (figurative) Ellipsis of grist for the mill. [(idiomatic) Something that is useful or that creates a favorable opportunity.]

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