grit

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

GRIT, noun 1. The coarse part of meal. 2. Oats hulled, or coarsely ground; written also groats. 3. Sand or gravel; rough hard particles. 4. Sandstone; stone composed of particles of sand agglutinated.
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