noun the coarse part of meal.
2. grit ·noun sand or gravel; rough, hard particles.
3. grit ·noun firmness of mind; invincible spirit; unyielding courage; fortitude.
4. grit ·noun structure, as adapted to grind or sharpen; as, a hone of good grit.
5. grit ·vt to grind; to rub harshly together; to grate; as, to grit the teeth.
6. grit ·noun grain, ·esp. oats or wheat, hulled and coarsely ground; in high milling, fragments of cracked wheat smaller than groats.
7. grit ·vi to give forth a grating sound, as sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.
8. grit ·noun 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.