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A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
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The flower beds were white with grit from sand blasting the flagstone walkways.
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Inedible particles in food.
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These cookies seem to have grit from nutshells in them.
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A measure of the relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper, the smaller the number the coarser the abrasive.
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I need a sheet of 100 grit sandpaper.
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A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit.
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Strength of mind; great courage or fearlessness; fortitude.
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That kid with the cast on his arm has the grit to play dodgeball.