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Webster 1913 Edition

Gruel

Gru′el

,
Noun.
[OF.
gruel
, F.
gruau
; of German origin; cf. OHG.
gruzzi
groats, G.
grütze
, As.
grūt
. See
Grout
.]
A light, liquid food, made by boiling meal of maize, oatmeal, or flour in water or milk; thin porridge.

Webster 1828 Edition

Gruel

GRU'EL

,
Noun.
A kind of light food made by boiling meal in water. It is usually made of the meal of oats or maiz.

Definition 2024

gruel

gruel

English

Noun

gruel ‎(plural gruels)

  1. A thin, watery porridge, formerly fed to the poor

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Verb

gruel ‎(third-person singular simple present gruels, present participle gruelling or grueling, simple past and past participle gruelled or grueled)

  1. (transitive) to exhaust; use up; disable

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References

  1. ↑ gruel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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Etymology

From Middle English gruel, gruwel, greuel, growel, from Old French gruel ("coarse meal"; > French gruau), from Medieval Latin grutellum, diminutive of Medieval Latin grutum ‎(“flour; meal”), from a Germanic source, likely Old English grūt ‎(“meal; grout”) or perhaps Frankish *grūt; both from Proto-Germanic *grūtiz ‎(“ground material; grit”). Compare Dutch gruit, Middle Low German grūt, Middle High German grūz, German Grütze ‎(“grout”)[1]. Related also to English groats, grit.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ʊəl

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