grit
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How grit fits the hive
Base Score
1
Before any pangram bonus
Unique Letters
4
G I R T
Two-Letter Start
GR
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
IT
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- 4 letters
- 4 unique letters
- GR start
- IT ending
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- grit is a four-letter word, so it is worth 1 point when accepted.
- It uses 4 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include g, i, r, t plus any remaining hive letters.
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Pronunciation
Definitions
noun
A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
"The flower beds were white with grit from sand blasting the flagstone walkways."
noun
Inedible particles in food.
"These cookies seem to have grit from nutshells in them."
noun
A measure of the relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper, the smaller the number the coarser the abrasive.
"I need a sheet of 100 grit sandpaper."
noun
A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit.
noun
Strength of mind; great courage or fearlessness; fortitude.
"That kid with the cast on his arm has the grit to play dodgeball."
verb
Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger.
"He has a sleeping disorder and grits his teeth."
verb
To cover with grit.
verb
To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.
noun
(usually in the plural) Husked but unground oats.
noun
(usually in the plural) Coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge.
Related Words
Same Letters
- girt
- trig