A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit.
Strength of mind; great courage or fearlessness; fortitude.
A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
Coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge.
Inedible particles in food.
Husked but unground oats.
A measure of the relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper, the smaller the number the coarser the abrasive.
Sand or a sand–salt mixture spread on wet and, especially, icy roads and footpaths to improve traction.
To cover with grit.
Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger.
Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see grain sizes chart), forming beaches and deserts and also used in construction.
A beach or other expanse of sand.
A moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life (referring to the sand in an hourglass).
"sand in [someone's] eyes" (idiom)
A sandpiper.
A particle from 62.5 microns to 2 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
A light beige colour, like that of typical sand.
Of a light beige colour, like that of typical sand.
To abrade the surface of (something) with sand or sandpaper in order to smooth or clean it.
To blot ink using sand.
To cover with sand.