grout

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noun
  1. a thin, coarse mortar poured into various narrow cavities, as masonry joints or rock fissures, to fill them and consolidate the adjoining objects into a solid mass.

  2. a coat of plaster for finishing a ceiling or interior wall.

  1. Usually grouts. lees; grounds.

  2. Archaic.

    • coarse meal or porridge.

    • grouts, groats.

verb (used with object)
  1. to fill or consolidate with grout.

  2. to use as grout.

Origin of grout

1
before 1150; Middle English; Old English grūt;see grits, groats, grit

Other words from grout

  • grouter, noun
  • un·grout·ed, adjective

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British Dictionary definitions for grout

grout

/ (ɡraʊt) /


noun
  1. a thin mortar for filling joints between tiles, masonry, etc

  2. a fine plaster used as a finishing coat

  1. coarse meal or porridge

verb
  1. (tr) to fill (joints) or finish (walls, etc) with grout

Origin of grout

1
Old English grūt; related to Old Frisian grēt sand, Middle High German grūz, Middle Dutch grūte coarse meal; see grit, groats

Derived forms of grout

  • grouter, noun

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