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Definition of Gritting
1. grit [v] - See also: grit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gritting
Literary usage of Gritting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Its by James Gettys McGready Ramsey (1853)
"... gritting his teeth on receiving its contents, retired to a stump near at hand.
Buchanan brought off Swanson, and they both got into the fort without ..."
2. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1823 The harmony arising from the filing of a saw, or the gritting of teeth.—Mass.
Spy, April 30. 1847 gritting his teeth, with a noise like a millstone, ..."
3. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"Men were gritting on the caissons ; convalescents in the ambulances vtn ...
And the moment *' Halt and rest" WHS heard, down sat many and resumed gritting. ..."
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