Another word for grit

grit Synonyms

grit

Fine particles
gravel, sand, abrasive powder, dust, lumps, bits of foreign matter, crushed rock.
Courage
pluck, resolution, daring, fortitude; see courage 1. See syn. study at fortitude.

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Some coals occur in the Millstone Grit horizons.
Next in upward sequence is a thick mass of sandstones, grits and shales - the Millstone Grit series.
The Coal Measures repose upon the Millstone Grit; the largest area of these rocks lies on the east, where they are conterminous with the coalfields of Yorkshire and Nottingham.
Good sandstone is obtained from the Millstone Grit at Stancliffe, Tansley and Whatstandwell.
The nobility remained- in debt and disaffected; and the clergy, more Grit kisn remarkable for wealth and breeding than for virtues, of Henry were won over to the ultramontane ideas of the IV.

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