groutn.¹

Brit.

/ɡraʊt/, U.S.

/ɡraʊt/

Etymology: Old English grút strong feminine (declined as consonant stem, dative grýt ), corresponding to Middle Dutch grute , gruit coarse meal, peeled barley or rye, malt, flavouring for beer, yeast (modern Dutch gruit dregs), Middle High German grûȥ masculine and feminine, grain, small beer; related to grit n.¹, grit n.², groats n.

1. Coarse meal, peeled grain. In plural = groats n. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > coarse meal

groutc725

gurgeonsa1483

c725 Corpus Gloss. 1619 Pollinis, gruiit [?gruut].

835 Charter in Old Eng. Texts 448 L ambra maltes, VI ambra gruta, & III wega spices & ceses.

c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 342 Gif he [wenn] sie men on cneowe oþþe on oþrum lime wyrc clam of surre rigenre grut oððe dage.

11.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 549/3 Furfures, gruta.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 46 If their stalkes or stemmes bee stamped with drie grout or Barley meale.

1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia ii. 29 The groutes and peeces of the cornes remaining, by fanning..away the branne, they boyle 3 or 4 houres with water.

1723 tr. F. C. Weber Present State Russia I. 56 Each Farm being taxed a certain Measure of Corn, Grout and Oatmeal.

1742 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Aug. xxix. 130 This Year's Wheat kerned only half Way, so that it was as thin as Grouts.

1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 441 The making of gruel by mixing the fine oatmeal or grouts into a smooth paste.

a. The infusion of malt before it is fermented, and during the process of fermentation. Also, small beer. Obsolete exc. dialect.

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the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > brewing > [noun] > wort

worteOE

groutc1000

gylec1440

sweet-wort1567

ney-beer1574

boorn1623

malt-wort1630

ale wort1658

lautermash1901

the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > beer > [noun] > weak or inferior beer

small beer1498

small drinkc1525

tap-lash1623

pritch1673

grout1674

belch1706

whip-belly1738

penny-whip1786

swipes1796

strike-me-dead1824

inky-pinky1835

swankey1841

suds1904

near-beer1909

c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 42 Genim..æges þæt hwite and ealde grut.

1589 Rare Triumphes Loue & Fortune i. sig. B The olde wife when her Ale would not come, thrust a fire brand in the groute.

1593 ‘P. Foulface’ Bacchus Bountie C 2 b Goody Goodale..deliuered to Bacchvs a iack full of groute, or a sack full of hops.

1671 S. Skinner & T. Henshaw Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ Grout,..Condimentum cerevisiæ, Mustum cerevisiæ.

1674 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 22 Grout, wort of the last running... Ale before it be fully brewed or sod, new Ale. It signifies also millet.

c1700 Kennett (Halliw.) In Leicestershire, the liquor with malt infused for ale or beer, before it is fully boiled, is called grout, and before it is tunned up in the vessel is called wort.

1727 Vin. Britan. 29 The worst small Beer, if that wretched Stuff called Grout, deserve the name.

1853 A. Soyer Pantropheon 302 When the brewer was satisfied that the grout was properly ripened, he poured it forth into the copper.

1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield Growte, small beer, made after the strong beer is brewed.

†b. Apparently (= Middle Dutch grute) some plant used as a flavouring for beer before the introduction of hops.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > yielding condiments or used in food preparation > [noun] > used to flavour beer > unidentified type of plant

grout14..

gyle-wort1565

14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 725/26 Hoc idromellum, growtt. Hoc ciromellum, wort.

14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 562/27 Agromellum, growt.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 217/1 Growte for ale, granomellum.

1483 Cath. Angl. 166/1 Growte, idromellum, agromellum, Acromellum, granomellum.

?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 772/12 Hoc ciromellum, growte.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 228/1 Grout that serveth to brewyng, in Fraunce is none used.

1671 [see sense 2a].

3. A kind of coarse porridge made from whole meal. ? Obsolete.[Possibly another word, < Norwegian graut, Danish grød, Swedish gröt (:—Old Norse graut-r.]

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > porridges > [noun]

polentaOE

papelotec1400

pottagea1500

crowdy-mowdy?a1513

drowsen1519

pease porridge?1548

plum pottage1574

sowens1582

grout1587

orgementa1590

plum porridge1591

loblolly1597

pease pottage1600

girt-brew1620

washbrew1620

lentil-porridge1622

hominy1630

porridgea1643

samp1643

nettle-pottage1659

nettle-porridge1661

crowdie1668

suppawn1670

mush1671

rockahominy1674

stirabouta1691

praiseach1698

sagamité1698

brochan1700

atole1716

burgoo1750

purry1751

fungee1789

pepper porridge1803

kasha1808

mamaliga1808

skilligalee1819

bean-porridge1821

skilly1839

sap porridge1842

corn-mush1846

oatmeal mush1850

pap1858

ugali1860

oatmeal1873

mealie-meal1880

mealie-pap1880

uji1889

sadza1899

nsima1907

putu papa1910

posho1927

putu1949

ogi1957

whey-porridge-

1587 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell (1627) 280 Some doe seethe it with water, and make it thicke like grout.

1674 J. Crowne et al. Notes Empress of Morocco 6 Never was Dutch Grout such Clogging, thick indigestible stuff.

1694 W. King Animadversions Pretended Acct. Danmark iv. 33 The Danes make their so much talkt of Grout, that resembles the English Hasty-Pudding.

1710 E. Ward 4th Pt. Vulgus Britannicus xii. 139 These..rave till grown as Piping Hot, As the dull Grout o'er which they sot.

1712 W. King Let. in Art of Cookery (ed. 2) 12 As for Grout it is an old Danish Dish.

1748 Acct. Voy. for Discov. North-west Passage I. 122 Feeding on Grout, which is Oatmeal, boiled to a Thickness, sweetened with Molossus.

1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. xlix. 335 The animal food which our common people eat, is incomparably more strengthening than their fish, cheese, milk and grout.

1793 ‘P. Pindar’ Poet. Epist. to Pope 5 France..Knocks the poor growling German o'er the snout, And threatens hard the man of cheese and grout.

4. Sediment; dregs; lees; grounds.

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > [noun] > specific impurities > sediment

drastc1000

groundsa1340

ground-sopec1440

hovec1440

faecesa1475

groundingsa1475

fex1540

suds1548

grummel1558

foot1560

grout1697

sludge1702

faecula1815

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 129 Sweet Honey some condense, some purge the Grout .

1739 ‘R. Bull’ tr. F. Dedekind Grobianus iii. iv. 222 The Mug may have some sedimental Grout.

1856 C. Dickens Little Dorrit (1857) i. v. 40 The ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old women might have told fortunes in them, better than in grouts of tea.

1870 D. G. Rossetti Dante at Verona lii Wherefore should we turn the grout In a drained cup?

1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. Grout, sediment of a coarse nature, such as the particles left in a tea-cup.

5. attributive, as (sense 3) grout-pot.

ΚΠ

1744 R. North & M. North Life Sir D. North & Rev. J. North 28 They..went all Hands to the Grout-pot and Bread-basket.

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groutn.²

Brit.

/ɡraʊt/, U.S.

/ɡraʊt/

Etymology: Possibly a use of grout n.¹; but compare French grouter (16th cent.), modern Limousin patois greuta to grout a wall (Godefroy).

a. Thin fluid mortar, which is poured into the interstices of masonry and woodwork.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > cement or mortar > [noun] > for stopping joints or cracks

lutec1400

luting1527

lutation1617

grout1638

lutum1719

fire lute1758

mortar-liquid1776

grouting1793

1638 J. Penkethman Artachthos sig. G^v For Growt and furning 3d. oq.

1791 W. Marshall Minutes in Rural Econ. W. Eng. (1796) II. 297 Liquid coating, of cement poured into the wall, in a state of grout.

1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §199 Pouring in liquid mortar, commonly called Grout, in so fluid a state, as to run into every cavity and crevice.

1793 Sir G. Shuckburgh in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 83 87 (note) The bricks of this arch were laid dry, and then grout, consisting of gravel and hot lime, was poured upon them.

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 532 Grout,..a cement containing a larger proportion of water than the common mortar.

1839 W. B. Stonehouse Hist. Isle of Axholme 22 The powder is..mixed with water to the consistency of that thin mortar which is called grout.

1861 S. Smiles Lives Engineers II. 37 It was..settled to use the finest grout for the intervals between the upright or side joints of the dovetailed part of the work.

1883 West. Daily Press 22 Oct. It is built of material resembling concrete or grout.

b. attributive, as grout-floor, grout-work.

ΚΠ

1840 W. Howitt Visits to Remarkable Places 1st Ser. 224 The walls are of strong grout-work, about four feet thick.

1884 Harper's Mag. Aug. 437 A casing of stone..covered the rubble and grout work.

1895 L. H. Bailey Horticulturist's Rule-bk. (ed. 3) 92 To secure a good grout or cement floor.

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groutn.³

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: grout n.¹

Etymology: Transferred sense of grout n.¹, arising from a misinterpretation of post-classical Latin agriomelum (see quot. 1755), alteration (after modern Greek ἀγριόμηλον wild apple) of agromelum , which occurs in medieval glossaries as a synonym of idromelum hydromel n. (see grout n.¹ 2b).

Explained as: A kind of wild apple.

ΚΠ

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Grout..3. A kind of wild apple (Agriomelum, Latin.)

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groutv.¹

Brit.

/ɡraʊt/, U.S.

/ɡraʊt/

Etymology: < grout n.²

transitive. To fill up or finish with ‘grout’ or liquid mortar; to cement. Also with in.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > surfacing or cladding > clad or cover [verb (transitive)] > fill in gaps

stop1388

beamfill1469

stuff1601

caulk1616

run1657

strike1668

fog1678

chinse1770

sneck1792

darn1801

pug1820

chink1822

grout1838

fillet1843

gallet1851

slush1875

putty1879

spackle1950

1838 F. W. Simms Public Wks. Great Brit. 60 The whole of the brickwork was well grouted every course.

1840 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 1 iv. 360 These carriers down the slopes are pitched with strong limestone, and grouted with lime and water.

1880 J. Lomas Man. Alkali Trade 162 The sole itself must be of 9-in. bricks, laid dry on end, and ‘grouted in’ with a thin mixture of finely ground fireclay and water.

figurative.1863 W. Phillips Speeches xxiii. 508 It was grouted and dove-tailed into the foundation of the state.1877 Tinsley's Mag. 21 29 That self-reliance which makes men, builds up colonies, and cements and ‘grouts in’ the foundations of States.

Derivatives

ˈgrouted adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > surfacing or cladding > [adjective] > with gaps filled in

grouted1844

stopped1881

1844 M. F. Tupper Crock of Gold ii. 11 Four bare rubble walls enclosing a grouted floor.

1888 C. Kerry in Jrnl. Derbysh. Archæol. Soc. 10 21 A large block of grouted rubble.

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groutv.²

Brit.

/ɡraʊt/, U.S.

/ɡraʊt/

Etymology: Variant of groot v.

1. intransitive. Of a pig: To ‘muzzle’ or turn up the ground with the snout. Also transferred and figurative.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [verb (intransitive)] > root about

wrootc725

forrootc1230

root1516

wrout1530

rout1547

grouta1723

snuzzle1740

groot1834

snozzle1881

the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > search for or seek [verb (transitive)] > in a grubbing manner

grout1907

a1723 T. D'Urfey Eng. Stage Italianiz'd (1727) 18 A great Herd of Swine, grouting among the Acorns.

1834 W. Beckford Italy; with Sketches Spain & Portugal II. 365 Wandering flocks of sheep, goats and swine, which rout, and grout, and nibble uncontrolled and unmolested.

1877 R. D. Blackmore Cripps xlix A pig or two grouting in the tufted grass.

1907 C. E. Ryder Bede Papers xi. 170 Modern science..with pickaxe and spade grouting at the immemorial roots of her tree of life.

a1941 V. Woolf Captain's Death Bed (1950) 31 He went off..to grout for fossils.

1951 N. Annan Leslie Stephen iv. 136 Jowett..encouraged his undergraduates to grout among the pearls that he cast before them and select whichever they regarded valuable.

1956 J. Masters Bugles & Tiger 240 The tribesmen could have walked in anywhere while we grouted around in the soup [i.e. liquid mud] for our rifles and machine-guns.

2. transitive. To turn up with the snout.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [verb (transitive)] > root about

wort1510

vert1578

grout1877

1877 R. D. Blackmore Cripps xlix Here comes that old pig again! If he could only grout up that board.

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groutv.³

Brit.

/ɡraʊt/, U.S.

/ɡraʊt/

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps an imitative or expressive formation.

Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps imitative. Compare earlier grutch v. (perhaps compare the Middle English past tense forms gruȝt and growht at that entry), and also grudge v.

U.S.

intransitive. To grumble, sulk.

ΚΠ

1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. vii. 91 Ez long 'z the people git their rattle, Wut is there fer 'm to grout about?

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n.¹c725

n.²1638

n.³1755

v.¹1838

v.²a1723

v.³1848

单词	grout
释义	groutn.¹ Brit. /ɡraʊt/, U.S. /ɡraʊt/ Etymology: Old English grút strong feminine (declined as consonant stem, dative grýt ), corresponding to Middle Dutch grute , gruit coarse meal, peeled barley or rye, malt, flavouring for beer, yeast (modern Dutch gruit dregs), Middle High German grûȥ masculine and feminine, grain, small beer; related to grit n.¹, grit n.², groats n. 1. Coarse meal, peeled grain. In plural = groats n. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > coarse meal groutc725 gurgeonsa1483 c725 Corpus Gloss. 1619 Pollinis, gruiit [?gruut]. 835 Charter in Old Eng. Texts 448 L ambra maltes, VI ambra gruta, & III wega spices & ceses. c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 342 Gif he [wenn] sie men on cneowe oþþe on oþrum lime wyrc clam of surre rigenre grut oððe dage. 11.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 549/3 Furfures, gruta. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 46 If their stalkes or stemmes bee stamped with drie grout or Barley meale. 1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia ii. 29 The groutes and peeces of the cornes remaining, by fanning..away the branne, they boyle 3 or 4 houres with water. 1723 tr. F. C. Weber Present State Russia I. 56 Each Farm being taxed a certain Measure of Corn, Grout and Oatmeal. 1742 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Aug. xxix. 130 This Year's Wheat kerned only half Way, so that it was as thin as Grouts. 1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 441 The making of gruel by mixing the fine oatmeal or grouts into a smooth paste. 2. a. The infusion of malt before it is fermented, and during the process of fermentation. Also, small beer. Obsolete exc. dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > brewing > [noun] > wort worteOE groutc1000 gylec1440 sweet-wort1567 ney-beer1574 boorn1623 malt-wort1630 ale wort1658 lautermash1901 the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > beer > [noun] > weak or inferior beer small beer1498 small drinkc1525 tap-lash1623 pritch1673 grout1674 belch1706 whip-belly1738 penny-whip1786 swipes1796 strike-me-dead1824 inky-pinky1835 swankey1841 suds1904 near-beer1909 c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 42 Genim..æges þæt hwite and ealde grut. 1589 Rare Triumphes Loue & Fortune i. sig. B The olde wife when her Ale would not come, thrust a fire brand in the groute. 1593 ‘P. Foulface’ Bacchus Bountie C 2 b Goody Goodale..deliuered to Bacchvs a iack full of groute, or a sack full of hops. 1671 S. Skinner & T. Henshaw Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ Grout,..Condimentum cerevisiæ, Mustum cerevisiæ. 1674 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 22 Grout, wort of the last running... Ale before it be fully brewed or sod, new Ale. It signifies also millet. c1700 Kennett (Halliw.) In Leicestershire, the liquor with malt infused for ale or beer, before it is fully boiled, is called grout, and before it is tunned up in the vessel is called wort. 1727 Vin. Britan. 29 The worst small Beer, if that wretched Stuff called Grout, deserve the name. 1853 A. Soyer Pantropheon 302 When the brewer was satisfied that the grout was properly ripened, he poured it forth into the copper. 1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield Growte, small beer, made after the strong beer is brewed. †b. Apparently (= Middle Dutch grute) some plant used as a flavouring for beer before the introduction of hops. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > yielding condiments or used in food preparation > [noun] > used to flavour beer > unidentified type of plant grout14.. gyle-wort1565 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 725/26 Hoc idromellum, growtt. Hoc ciromellum, wort. 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 562/27 Agromellum, growt. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 217/1 Growte for ale, granomellum. 1483 Cath. Angl. 166/1 Growte, idromellum, agromellum, Acromellum, granomellum. ?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 772/12 Hoc ciromellum, growte. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 228/1 Grout that serveth to brewyng, in Fraunce is none used. 1671 [see sense 2a]. 3. A kind of coarse porridge made from whole meal. ? Obsolete.[Possibly another word, < Norwegian graut, Danish grød, Swedish gröt (:—Old Norse graut-r.] ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > porridges > [noun] polentaOE papelotec1400 pottagea1500 crowdy-mowdy?a1513 drowsen1519 pease porridge?1548 plum pottage1574 sowens1582 grout1587 orgementa1590 plum porridge1591 loblolly1597 pease pottage1600 girt-brew1620 washbrew1620 lentil-porridge1622 hominy1630 porridgea1643 samp1643 nettle-pottage1659 nettle-porridge1661 crowdie1668 suppawn1670 mush1671 rockahominy1674 stirabouta1691 praiseach1698 sagamité1698 brochan1700 atole1716 burgoo1750 purry1751 fungee1789 pepper porridge1803 kasha1808 mamaliga1808 skilligalee1819 bean-porridge1821 skilly1839 sap porridge1842 corn-mush1846 oatmeal mush1850 pap1858 ugali1860 oatmeal1873 mealie-meal1880 mealie-pap1880 uji1889 sadza1899 nsima1907 putu papa1910 posho1927 putu1949 ogi1957 whey-porridge- 1587 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell (1627) 280 Some doe seethe it with water, and make it thicke like grout. 1674 J. Crowne et al. Notes Empress of Morocco 6 Never was Dutch Grout such Clogging, thick indigestible stuff. 1694 W. King Animadversions Pretended Acct. Danmark iv. 33 The Danes make their so much talkt of Grout, that resembles the English Hasty-Pudding. 1710 E. Ward 4th Pt. Vulgus Britannicus xii. 139 These..rave till grown as Piping Hot, As the dull Grout o'er which they sot. 1712 W. King Let. in Art of Cookery (ed. 2) 12 As for Grout it is an old Danish Dish. 1748 Acct. Voy. for Discov. North-west Passage I. 122 Feeding on Grout, which is Oatmeal, boiled to a Thickness, sweetened with Molossus. 1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. xlix. 335 The animal food which our common people eat, is incomparably more strengthening than their fish, cheese, milk and grout. 1793 ‘P. Pindar’ Poet. Epist. to Pope 5 France..Knocks the poor growling German o'er the snout, And threatens hard the man of cheese and grout. 4. Sediment; dregs; lees; grounds. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > [noun] > specific impurities > sediment drastc1000 groundsa1340 ground-sopec1440 hovec1440 faecesa1475 groundingsa1475 fex1540 suds1548 grummel1558 foot1560 grout1697 sludge1702 faecula1815 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 129 Sweet Honey some condense, some purge the Grout . View more context for this quotation 1739 ‘R. Bull’ tr. F. Dedekind Grobianus iii. iv. 222 The Mug may have some sedimental Grout. 1856 C. Dickens Little Dorrit (1857) i. v. 40 The ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old women might have told fortunes in them, better than in grouts of tea. 1870 D. G. Rossetti Dante at Verona lii Wherefore should we turn the grout In a drained cup? 1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. Grout, sediment of a coarse nature, such as the particles left in a tea-cup. 5. attributive, as (sense 3) grout-pot. ΚΠ 1744 R. North & M. North Life Sir D. North & Rev. J. North 28 They..went all Hands to the Grout-pot and Bread-basket. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022). groutn.² Brit. /ɡraʊt/, U.S. /ɡraʊt/ Etymology: Possibly a use of grout n.¹; but compare French grouter (16th cent.), modern Limousin patois greuta to grout a wall (Godefroy). a. Thin fluid mortar, which is poured into the interstices of masonry and woodwork. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > cement or mortar > [noun] > for stopping joints or cracks lutec1400 luting1527 lutation1617 grout1638 lutum1719 fire lute1758 mortar-liquid1776 grouting1793 1638 J. Penkethman Artachthos sig. G^v For Growt and furning 3d. oq. 1791 W. Marshall Minutes in Rural Econ. W. Eng. (1796) II. 297 Liquid coating, of cement poured into the wall, in a state of grout. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §199 Pouring in liquid mortar, commonly called Grout, in so fluid a state, as to run into every cavity and crevice. 1793 Sir G. Shuckburgh in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 83 87 (note) The bricks of this arch were laid dry, and then grout, consisting of gravel and hot lime, was poured upon them. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 532 Grout,..a cement containing a larger proportion of water than the common mortar. 1839 W. B. Stonehouse Hist. Isle of Axholme 22 The powder is..mixed with water to the consistency of that thin mortar which is called grout. 1861 S. Smiles Lives Engineers II. 37 It was..settled to use the finest grout for the intervals between the upright or side joints of the dovetailed part of the work. 1883 West. Daily Press 22 Oct. It is built of material resembling concrete or grout. b. attributive, as grout-floor, grout-work. ΚΠ 1840 W. Howitt Visits to Remarkable Places 1st Ser. 224 The walls are of strong grout-work, about four feet thick. 1884 Harper's Mag. Aug. 437 A casing of stone..covered the rubble and grout work. 1895 L. H. Bailey Horticulturist's Rule-bk. (ed. 3) 92 To secure a good grout or cement floor. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). groutn.³ Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: grout n.¹ Etymology: Transferred sense of grout n.¹, arising from a misinterpretation of post-classical Latin agriomelum (see quot. 1755), alteration (after modern Greek ἀγριόμηλον wild apple) of agromelum , which occurs in medieval glossaries as a synonym of idromelum hydromel n. (see grout n.¹ 2b). Explained as: A kind of wild apple. ΚΠ 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Grout..3. A kind of wild apple (Agriomelum, Latin.) This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2021). groutv.¹ Brit. /ɡraʊt/, U.S. /ɡraʊt/ Etymology: < grout n.² transitive. To fill up or finish with ‘grout’ or liquid mortar; to cement. Also with in. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > surfacing or cladding > clad or cover [verb (transitive)] > fill in gaps stop1388 beamfill1469 stuff1601 caulk1616 run1657 strike1668 fog1678 chinse1770 sneck1792 darn1801 pug1820 chink1822 grout1838 fillet1843 gallet1851 slush1875 putty1879 spackle1950 1838 F. W. Simms Public Wks. Great Brit. 60 The whole of the brickwork was well grouted every course. 1840 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 1 iv. 360 These carriers down the slopes are pitched with strong limestone, and grouted with lime and water. 1880 J. Lomas Man. Alkali Trade 162 The sole itself must be of 9-in. bricks, laid dry on end, and ‘grouted in’ with a thin mixture of finely ground fireclay and water. figurative.1863 W. Phillips Speeches xxiii. 508 It was grouted and dove-tailed into the foundation of the state.1877 Tinsley's Mag. 21 29 That self-reliance which makes men, builds up colonies, and cements and ‘grouts in’ the foundations of States. Derivatives ˈgrouted adj. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > surfacing or cladding > [adjective] > with gaps filled in grouted1844 stopped1881 1844 M. F. Tupper Crock of Gold ii. 11 Four bare rubble walls enclosing a grouted floor. 1888 C. Kerry in Jrnl. Derbysh. Archæol. Soc. 10 21 A large block of grouted rubble. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). groutv.² Brit. /ɡraʊt/, U.S. /ɡraʊt/ Etymology: Variant of groot v. 1. intransitive. Of a pig: To ‘muzzle’ or turn up the ground with the snout. Also transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [verb (intransitive)] > root about wrootc725 forrootc1230 root1516 wrout1530 rout1547 grouta1723 snuzzle1740 groot1834 snozzle1881 the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > search for or seek [verb (transitive)] > in a grubbing manner grout1907 a1723 T. D'Urfey Eng. Stage Italianiz'd (1727) 18 A great Herd of Swine, grouting among the Acorns. 1834 W. Beckford Italy; with Sketches Spain & Portugal II. 365 Wandering flocks of sheep, goats and swine, which rout, and grout, and nibble uncontrolled and unmolested. 1877 R. D. Blackmore Cripps xlix A pig or two grouting in the tufted grass. 1907 C. E. Ryder Bede Papers xi. 170 Modern science..with pickaxe and spade grouting at the immemorial roots of her tree of life. a1941 V. Woolf Captain's Death Bed (1950) 31 He went off..to grout for fossils. 1951 N. Annan Leslie Stephen iv. 136 Jowett..encouraged his undergraduates to grout among the pearls that he cast before them and select whichever they regarded valuable. 1956 J. Masters Bugles & Tiger 240 The tribesmen could have walked in anywhere while we grouted around in the soup [i.e. liquid mud] for our rifles and machine-guns. 2. transitive. To turn up with the snout. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [verb (transitive)] > root about wort1510 vert1578 grout1877 1877 R. D. Blackmore Cripps xlix Here comes that old pig again! If he could only grout up that board. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). groutv.³ Brit. /ɡraʊt/, U.S. /ɡraʊt/ Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps an imitative or expressive formation. Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps imitative. Compare earlier grutch v. (perhaps compare the Middle English past tense forms gruȝt and growht at that entry), and also grudge v. U.S. intransitive. To grumble, sulk. ΚΠ 1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. vii. 91 Ez long 'z the people git their rattle, Wut is there fer 'm to grout about? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹c725n.²1638n.³1755v.¹1838v.²a1723v.³1848
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