Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To clench (one's teeth), particularly in reaction to pain or anger. · To cover with grit. · To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.
A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking. · Sand or a sand–salt mixture spread on wet and, especially, icy roads and footpaths to improve traction. · Small, hard, inedible particles in food. · A measure of the size of abrasive grains, such as those on sandpaper, and thus their relative coarseness or fineness; the smaller the number, the coarser the abrasive: thus, 60 is rough, 600 is fine, and 3000 is ultrafine.
With early modern vowel shortening, from Middle English grete, griet, from Old English grēot, from Proto-West Germanic *greut, from Proto-Germanic *greutą. Compare grist.
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