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grout

noun
/ɡɹaʊt/UK/ɡɹʌut/CA/ɡɹæɔt/

Etymology

From Middle English growte, grut, from Old English grūt (“dregs; coarse meal”), from Proto-West Germanic *grūt, 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. derived from *gʰer-✻ — “to grind, rub”
  2. inherited from *grūtą✻
  3. inherited from *grūt✻
  4. inherited from grūt — “dregs; coarse meal”
  5. inherited from growte

Definitions

  1. A thin mortar used to fill the gaps between tiles and cavities in masonry.

  2. Coarse meal

    Coarse meal; groats.

  3. Dregs, sediment.

    • grouts of tea
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A kind of beer or ale.

    2. To insert mortar between tiles.

      • I spent the whole afternoon grouting the kitchen floor.
      • * Stitching and grouting fractures in masonry, insertion of date marker tabs for monitoring.

    3. To affix with mortar.

      • The year before the pandemic, a sump tank attached to a waste pond sprang a leak and had to be grouted shut.

    4. A surname.

The neighborhood

Derived

grouter, grout float, groutlike, grouty, regrout

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA