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Definition of Gritted
1. grit [v] - See also: grit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gritted
Literary usage of Gritted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Camp Cookery by Horace Kephart (1910)
""gritted Bread."-—When green corn has become too hard for boiling, ... The flavor
of "gritted bread" is a blend of hot pone and roasting ears—delectable! ..."
2. Brickwork & Masonry: A Practical Text Book for Students, and Those Engaged by Charles Frederick Mitchell, George Arthur Mitchell (1904)
"The fine gritted is used as a covering for roofs, arches, ... The coarse gritted,
containing a larger grit and greater quantity than the former, ..."
3. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents: Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"When I moved, it gritted its teeth quite loud, sometimes striking the under ...
He gritted his teeth less. I chewed checkerberry leaves and presented them ..."
4. Stories of a Country Doctor by Willis Percival King (1891)
"That was obtained in this way: Having a large tray of " gritted " meal, ...
This was repeated until enough of the finer particles of the gritted meal was ..."
5. Gum-elastic and Its Varieties: With a Detailed Account of Its Applications by Charles Goodyear (1853)
"It is made of three qualities, the gritted sponge compound, which is very soft
and yielding; the gritted magnesia compound, which is very hard, ..."
6. Road Making and Maintenance: A Practical Treatise for Engineers, Surveyors by Thomas Aitken (1907)
"gritted mastic asphalt, however, for flooring, etc., is composed of not less than
15 per cent. of bitumen and 65 per cent. of fine rock asphalt powder, ..."
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