grout

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English

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Grout being applied.
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Etymology

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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

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Noun

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grout (countable and uncountable, plural grouts)

  1. A thin mortar used to fill the gaps between tiles and cavities in masonry.
  2. (archaic) Coarse meal; groats.
  3. (archaic, chiefly in the plural) Dregs, sediment.
  4. (UK, obsolete) A kind of beer or ale.
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Verb

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grout (third-person singular simple present grouts, present participle grouting, simple past and past participle grouted)

  1. (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.
  2. (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.

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References

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  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “grout”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

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Dutch

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Noun

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grout ? (uncountable)

  1. grout

Middle English

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Noun

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grout

  1. Alternative form of growte