Definition of Gromets

1. Noun. (plural of gromet) ¹

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Definition of Gromets

1. gromet [n] - See also: gromet

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gromets

groinal
groined
groined vault
groining
groinings
groins
groinward
grok
grokked
grokking
groks
grom
groma
gromas
gromet
gromets (current term)
gromill
grommet
grommeted
grommeting
grommets
groms
gromwells
grone
groned
grones
groning
groof
groofs

Literary usage of Gromets

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications of the Navy Records Society by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1906)
"Resolved, That gromets be allowed fourteen shillings and three pence a month, and boys nine shillings and six pence; whereof one shilling to be paid to the ..."

2. Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, [during the Commonwealth by Great Britain Public Record Office (1878)
"That the wages of all not capable of the aforesaid duties be continued at ] 9s. a month, boys and gromets excepted. 4. That the captain, master, ..."

3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1850)
"Bailey explains " gromets or Grom- wells, the most servile persons on ship-board," probably, metaphorically, from " Gromet or Grummet," " small rings," adds ..."

4. Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity by Society of Antiquaries of London (1849)
"... to the surgeon, 15*. to the gunner, and \\s.3d. to the quarter- gunner ; while the foremast men received 10*. per mensem, the gromets 7*. ..."

5. Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits by Alfred Cort Haddon, William Halse Rivers Rivers, Charles Gabriel Seligman, Charles Samuel Myers, William McDougall, Sidney Herbert Ray, Anthony Wilkin (1912)
"The backstays, which now pass through the gromets of both sails, are attached as before. A sheet is attached to the starboard lower corner of the dado, ..."

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