GRIT

Grit

Grit is a magazine, formerly a weekly newspaper, popular in the rural US during much of the 20th century. It carried the subtitle America's Greatest Family Newspaper. In the early 1930s, it targeted small town and rural families with 14 pages plus a fiction supplement. By 1932, it had a circulation of 425,000 in 48 states, and 83% of its circulation was in towns of fewer than 10,000 population.

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grit

Noun

  1. Collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, swarf from metalworking.
    The flower beds were white with grit from sand blasting the flagstone walkways.
  2. Inedible particles in food.
    Tastes like grit from nut shells in these cookies.
  3. Firmness of mind; invincible spirit; unyielding courage or fearlessness; fortitude.
    That kid with the cast on his arm has the grit to play dodgeball.
  4. A measure of relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper.
    I need a sheet of 100 grit sandpaper.
  5. A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, to a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g. grindstone grit.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. husked but unground oats
  2. coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge

Verb

  1. To clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger; apparently only appears in gritting one's teeth.
    We had no choice but to grit our teeth and get on with it.
    He has a sleeping disorder and grits his teeth.
  2. To cover with grit.
  3. To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.


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