▸ noun: A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking. ▸ noun: Sand or a sand–salt mixture spread on wet and, especially, icy roads and footpaths to improve traction. ▸ noun: Small, hard, inedible particles in food. ▸ noun: A measure of the relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper, the smaller the number the coarser the abrasive. ▸ noun: (geology) A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit. ▸ noun: Strength of mind; great courage or fearlessness; fortitude. ▸ verb: Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger. ▸ verb: To cover with grit. ▸ verb: (obsolete, intransitive) To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind. ▸ noun: (usually in the plural) Husked but unground oats. ▸ noun: (usually in the plural) Coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge. ▸ noun: (Canadian politics) A member or supporter of the Liberal Party of Canada or one of its provincial wings (except for the Quebec provincial wing). ▸ adjective: (Canadian politics) Of or belonging to the Liberal Party of Canada.
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