Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A thin mortar used to fill cracks and crevices in masonry.
- noun A thin plaster for finishing walls and ceilings.
- noun Chiefly British Sediment; lees.
- transitive verb To fill or finish with a thin mortar or plaster.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A thin coarse mortar poured into the joints of masonry and brickwork.
- noun A finishing or setting coat of fine stuff for ceilings.
- Made with or consisting of grout.
- noun Coarse meal; pollard; in the plural, groats; also, porridge made of such meal.
- noun Wort when first prepared, and before it has begun to ferment.
- noun Lees; grounds; dregs.
- noun Mud; dirt; filth.
- To fill up or form with grout, as the joints or spaces between stones; use as grout.
- A dialectal form of
great , seen in composition, as in grouthead, groutnoll. - To bore with the snout, or dig up like a hog.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Coarse meal; ground malt
- noun engraving Formerly, a kind of beer or ale.
- noun engraving Lees; dregs; grounds.
- noun A thin, coarse mortar, used for pouring into the joints of masonry and brickwork; also, a finer material, used in finishing the best ceilings.
- transitive verb To fill up or finish with grout, as the joints between stones.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A thin
mortar used to fill the gaps betweentiles and cavities in masonry. - noun
Coarse meal ;groats . - noun (typically used in the plural)
Dregs ,sediment . - verb To
insert mortar between tiles.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb bind with grout
- noun a thin mortar that can be poured and used to fill cracks in masonry or brickwork
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I understand that tile grout is out of your intellectual league.
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The FloorMate lived up to its billing on flat-sheet flooring like vinyl and linoleum but left some dirt in grout lines and beveled wooden edges.
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Slowly, as though talking to a small child, he explained, Honey, grout is fragile.
Archive 2007-08-01 Anne-Marie 2007
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Slowly, as though talking to a small child, he explained, Honey, grout is fragile.
Day 5, Cleaning Anne-Marie 2007
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Yes, "real" grout is available in Mexico, and in colors.
Cemento Blanco 2004
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One inexplicably popular trend was puns on the word grout, which started with The Grout Escape painted under the railway bridge in Shoreditch.
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The sides of each column were corrugated to interlock with its adjacent columns, leaving interstices to be filled with the cement paste known as grout.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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The sides of each column were corrugated to interlock with its adjacent columns, leaving interstices to be filled with the cement paste known as grout.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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Applying the grout is the messy part, you simply scoop some up using a spreader or spatula and press it onto you Mosaic, gently pushing it into all the gaps.
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The grout should be a thick paste; a 30-ft. column of grout will balance a
Concrete Construction Methods and Costs Halbert Powers Gillette
marco_nj commented on the word grout
Least favorite word. Grout.
December 3, 2006
slumry commented on the word grout
Better'n gout!
June 19, 2007
hernesheir commented on the word grout
Which is coarser grit, groat, or grout? Cf. discussions @ cheese grits.
September 20, 2009