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English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English growte, grut, from Old English grūt (“dregs; coarse meal”), from Proto-Germanic *grūtą (compare Dutch gruit (“dregs”), German Grauß, Norwegian grut (“ground”)), lengthening of Proto-Germanic *grutą, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to grind, rub”). Related to grit.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK, US) IPA(key): /ɡɹaʊt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (Canada) IPA(key): /ɡɹʌut/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ɡɹæɔt/
- Rhymes: -aʊt
Noun
[edit]grout (countable and uncountable, plural grouts)
- A thin mortar used to fill the gaps between tiles and cavities in masonry.
- (archaic) Coarse meal; groats.
- (archaic, chiefly in the plural) Dregs, sediment.
- 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, chapter V, in Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC:
- grouts of tea
- (UK, obsolete) A kind of beer or ale.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]mortar used between tiles
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coarse meal
dregs
Verb
[edit]grout (third-person singular simple present grouts, present participle grouting, simple past and past participle grouted)
- (transitive) To insert mortar between tiles.
- I spent the whole afternoon grouting the kitchen floor.
- 2020 May 20, Philip Haigh, “Ribblehead: at the heart of the S&C's survival and its revival: Ribblehead Viaduct repairs”, in Rail, page 27:
- * Stitching and grouting fractures in masonry, insertion of date marker tabs for monitoring.
- (transitive) To affix with mortar.
- December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian[1]:
- The year before the pandemic, a sump tank attached to a waste pond sprang a leak and had to be grouted shut.
Translations
[edit]insert mortar between tiles
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References
[edit]- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “grout”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Anagrams
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Noun
[edit]grout ? (uncountable)
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]grout
- Alternative form of growte
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