grit

A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.

The flower beds were white with grit from sand blasting the flagstone walkways.

A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.

Small, hard, inedible particles in food.

These cookies seem to have grit from nutshells in them.

A measure of the size of abrasive grains, such as those on sandpaper, and thus their relative coarseness or fineness; the smaller the number, the coarser the abrasive: thus, 60 is rough, 600 is fine, and 3000 is ultrafine.

I need a sheet of 100 grit sandpaper.

A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit.

To clench (one's teeth), particularly in reaction to pain or anger.

We had no choice but to grit our teeth and get on with it.

He has a sleeping disorder and grits his teeth.

To cover with grit.

To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.

The sanded floor that grits beneath the tread

Husked but unground oats.

Coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge.

grits and eggs

ham and grits