Strength of mind; great courage or fearlessness; fortitude.
A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit.
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.
A real or pretended indifference to pleasure or pain; insensibility; impassiveness.
A school of philosophy popularized during the Roman Empire that emphasized reason as a means of understanding the natural state of things, or logos, and as a means of freeing oneself from emotional distress.