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grit noun

  /ɡɹɪt/
  • A measure of the relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper, the smaller the number the coarser the abrasive.
 karkeus
  • A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
 kivipöly, metallipuru, puru, pöly
  • Small, hard, inedible particles in food.
 puru
  • Strength of mind; great courage or fearlessness; fortitude.
 sisu, sisukkuus

grit verb

  /ɡɹɪt/
  • (obsolete, intransitive) To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.
 narskua
  • Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger.
 narskuttaa, purra hammasta
  • To cover with grit.
 peittää purulla

grits noun

  /ɡɹɪts/
  • ('hulled oats'); groats.
 ryynit

grit noun

  /ɡɹɪt/
  • (usually, in the plural) Husked but unground oats.
 kauraryyni
grit one's teeth
kiristellä hampaita, kiristellä hampaitaan, purra hammasta
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