grout

A thin mortar used to fill the gaps between tiles and cavities in masonry.

Coarse meal; groats.

Dregs, sediment.

grouts of tea

A kind of beer or ale.

To insert mortar between tiles.

I spent the whole afternoon grouting the kitchen floor.

* Stitching and grouting fractures in masonry, insertion of date marker tabs for monitoring.

To affix with mortar.

The year before the pandemic, a sump tank attached to a waste pond sprang a leak and had to be grouted shut.

A surname.