| grit | 1. Sand or gravel; rough, hard particles. 2. The coarse part of meal. 3. Grain, especially. Oats or wheat, hulled and coarsely ground; in high milling, fragments of cracked wheat smaller than groats. 4. <geology> A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; as, millstone grit; called also gritrock and gritstone. The name is also applied to a finer sharp-grained sandstone; as, grindstone grit. 5. Structure, as adapted to grind or sharpen; as, a hone of good grit. 6. Firmness of mind; invincible spirit; unyielding courage; fortitude. Origin: OE, greet, greot, sand, gravel, AS. Greot grit, sant, dust; akin to OS griott, OFries. Gret gravel, OHG. Grioz, G. Griess, Icel. Grjot, and to E. Groats, grout. See Groats, Grout, and cf. Grail gravel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| gritstone | <geology> See Grit. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Gritti's operation | Supracondylar amputation of the femur, the patella being preserved and applied to the end of the bone, its articular cartilage being removed so as to obtain union. Synonym: Gritti's operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gritti, Rocco | <person> Italian surgeon, 1828-1920. See: Gritti's operation, Gritti-Stokes amputation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gritti-Stokes amputation | Supracondylar amputation of the femur, the patella being preserved and applied to the end of the bone, its articular cartilage being removed so as to obtain union. Synonym: Gritti's operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| schoharie grit | <geology> The formation belonging to the middle of the three subdivisions of the Corniferous period in the American Devonian system; so called from Schoharie, in new York, where it occurs. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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