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grout

[grout]
–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.
3. Usually, grouts. lees; grounds.
4. Archaic.
a. coarse meal or porridge.
b. grouts, groats.
–verb (used with object)
5. to fill or consolidate with grout.
6. to use as grout.

Origin:
bef. 1150; ME; OE grūt; see grits, groats, grit


grouter, noun
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grout   (grout)   
n.  
    1. A thin mortar used to fill cracks and crevices in masonry.

    2. A thin plaster for finishing walls and ceilings.

  1. Chiefly British Sediment; lees. Often used in the plural.

tr.v.   grout·ed, grout·ing, grouts
To fill or finish with a thin mortar or plaster.

[Middle English, grain used for making malt, mud, from Old English grūt, coarse meal.]
grout'er n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

grout 
1587, "thin, fluid mortar," originally "coarse porridge," from O.E. gruta (pl.) "coarse meal," related to O.E. grytta (see grits).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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