grit : Idioms & Phrases

Index

hominy grits

  • noun coarsely ground hulled corn boiled as a breakfast dish in the southern United States
    grits.
WordNet

schoharie grit

Scho*har"ie grit`
Definitions
  1. (Geol.) 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. See the Chart of Geology.
Webster 1913

Yorkshire grit

  • a kind of stone used for polishing marble, and copperplates for engravers. Simmonds.
Webster 1913