grout
See also: Grout
English edit
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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
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.
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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)
- 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.
- 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.
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grout ? (uncountable)
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grout
- Alternative form of growte