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Webster 1913 Edition


Grout

Grout

(grout)
,
Noun.
[AS.
grūt
; akin to
grytt
, G.
grütze
,
griess
, Icel.
grautr
, Lith.
grudas
corn, kernel, and E.
groats
.]
1.
Coarse meal; ground malt;
pl.
groats.
2.
Formerly, a kind of beer or ale.
[Eng.]
3.
pl.
Lees; dregs; grounds.
[Eng.]
Grouts of tea.”
Dickens.
4.
A thin, coarse mortar, used for pouring into the joints of masonry and brickwork; also, a finer material, used in finishing the best ceilings.
Gwilt.

Grout

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Grouted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Grouting
.]
To fill up or finish with grout, as the joints between stones.

Webster 1828 Edition


Grout

GROUT

,
Noun.
Coarse meal; pollard.
1.
A kind of wild apple.
2.
A thin coarse mortar.
3.
That which purges off.

Definition 2024


grout

grout

English

Noun

grout (countable and uncountable, plural grouts)

  1. A thin mortar used to fill the gaps between tiles and cavities in masonry.
  2. (now rare) Coarse meal; groats.
  3. (now rare) (typically used in the plural) Dregs, sediment.
    • Charles Dickens
      grouts of tea
  4. (Britain, obsolete) A kind of beer or ale.

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Translations

Verb

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

  1. To insert mortar between tiles.
    I spent the whole afternoon grouting the kitchen floor.

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Dutch

Noun

grout ? (uncountable)

  1. grout