Defn: Consisting of, or containing, gristle; like gristle; cartilaginous.
GRISTMILL
Grist"mill", n.
Defn: A mill for grinding grain; especially, a mill for grinding grists, or portions of grain brought by different customers; a custom mill.
GRIT
Grit, n. Etym: [OE, greet, greot, sand, gravel, AS. greót grit, sant,
dust; akin to OS griott, OFries. gret gravel, OHG. grioz, G. griess,
Icel. grjot, and to E. groats, grout. See Groats, Grout, and cf.
Grail gravel.]
1. Sand or gravel; rough, hard particles.
2. The coarse part of meal.
3. pl.
Defn: Grain, esp. oats or wheat, hulled and coarsely ground; in high milling, fragments of cracked wheat smaller than groats.
4. (Geol.)
Defn: A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; as, millstone grit; — called also gritrock and gritstone. The name is also applied to a finer sharp-grained sandstone; as, grindstone grit.