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grout

Best crossword clue

"Tile-gap filler"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ɡɹaʊt/Part of speech verb, nounSorted gortuStarts with GEnds with T1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a mortar-like material used to fill gaps between tiles

Word origin

From Middle English growte, grut, from Old English grūt (“dregs; coarse meal”), from Proto-West Germanic *grūt, from Proto-Germanic *grūtą (compare Dutch gruit (“dregs”), German Grauß, Norwegian grut (“ground”)), lengthening of Proto-Germanic *grutą, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to grind, rub”). Related to grit.

Used in a sentence

  • grouts of tea
  • I spent the whole afternoon grouting the kitchen floor.
  • * Stitching and grouting fractures in masonry, insertion of date marker tabs for monitoring.

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