grout

[grout]

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noun

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.

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

Usually, grouts. lees; grounds.

Archaic.

coarse meal or porridge.

grouts, groats.

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verb (used with object)

to fill or consolidate with grout.

to use as grout.

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

Related forms

grout·er, noun

un·grout·ed, adjective

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grout (ɡraʊt)

—n
1.	a thin mortar for filling joints between tiles, masonry, etc
2.	a fine plaster used as a finishing coat
3.	coarse meal or porridge

—vb
4.	(tr) to fill (joints) or finish (walls, etc) with grout

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

'grouter

—n

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grout

1587, "thin, fluid mortar," originally "coarse porridge," from O.E. gruta (pl.) "coarse meal," related to O.E. grytta (see grits).

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