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grits noun

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

grit noun

  /ɡɹɪt/
  • 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.
 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
  • (idiomatic) Strength of mind; 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

grit noun

  /ɡɹɪt/
  • (usually, in the plural) Husked but unground oats.
 kauraryyni
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