| 单词 | grindstone grit |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrindstone grit 3. A kind of stone suitable for making grindstones. Also grindstone grit. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > stone for millstones or grindstones > for grindstones grindle stone1523 grindstone1678 1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. iii. 58 Take a peece of Grinstone or Whet-stone, and rub hard upon your work to take the black scurff off it. a1847 in H. Howe Hist. Coll. Ohio (1847) 121 The stones were of the common grindstone grit. 1858 H. G. Nicholls Forest Dean ii. 27 In A.D. 1637 a grant was made to Edward Terringham of ‘all the mines of coal and quarries of grindstone within the Forest of Dean’. 1863 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. 73 Grit, Grit-Rock, a hard, gritty rock, consisting of sand and small pebbles, called also millstone grit, and grindstone grit, because used sometimes for grindstones. < as lemmas |
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