To grind an axe.—See Axe.
To get a grind on one, verb. phr. (American).—To play practical jokes; to tell a story against one; to annoy or vex.
To grind wind, verb. phr. (old prison).—To work the treadmill. See Everlasting Staircase.
1889. Clarkson and Richardson. Police, p. 322. On the treadmill … grinding wind.
Grinder, subs. (college).—1. A private tutor; a coach (q.v.). Cf., Crammer.
1812. Miss Edgeworth, Patronage, ch. iii. Put him into the hands of a clever grinder or crammer, and they would soon cram the necessary portion of Latin and Greek into him.
1841. Punch, vol. I., p. 201. Then contriving to accumulate five guineas to pay a grinder, he routs out his old note books from the bottom of his box and commences to read.
1841. A. Smith, ‘The London Medical Student’ in Punch, i., p. 229. G was a grinder, who sharpen’d the the fools.
1849. Thackeray, Pendennis, ch. v. She sent me down here with a grinder. She wants me to cultivate my neglected genius.
2. Usually in. pl. (common).—The teeth.