- Millstone grit
Millstone grit (spr. millstōn gritt), s. Grit.
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Millstone grit
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Millstone-grit — (engl., spr. stohn), der flözleere Sandstein im Oberkarbon Englands und Nordamerikas … Kleines Konversations-Lexikon
millstone grit — noun 1. A hard, gritty sandstone suitable for millstones 2. (with cap) a series of grits, sandstones, shales, underlying the British Coal Measures • • • Main Entry: ↑mill … Useful english dictionary
Millstone Grit — The Salt Cellar, a gritstone tor on Derwent Edge in the Peak District, England Millstone Grit is the name given to any of a number of coarse grained sandstones of Carboniferous age which occur in the Northern England. The name derives from its… … Wikipedia
millstone grit — noun a coarse sandstone of the British Carboniferous, occurring immediately below the coal measures … English new terms dictionary
Millstone (disambiguation) — Millstone may refer to: Contents 1 People 2 Places 3 Other 4 See also People James Millstone, U.S. journalist … Wikipedia
Grit — Grit, n. [OE, greet, greot, sand, gravel, AS. gre[ o]t grit, sant, dust; akin to OS griott, OFries. gret gravel, OHG. grioz, G. griess, Icel. grj[=o]t, and to E. groats, grout. See {Groats}, {Grout}, and cf. {Grail} gravel.] 1. Sand or gravel;… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Grit — (Millstone grit, Mühlensandstein, Coal grit), der grobkörnige Sandstein der Steinkohlenformation in England und Nordamerika, insbes. die dem flözleeren Sandstein in Deutschland entsprechenden, mit Schieferton abwechselnden Sandsteine, die sich… … Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon
Grit — Grit, engl. Name gewisser Sandsteine, bes. für den Millstone grit (Mühlsteinsandstein, Flözleerer Sandstein), welcher unter der produktiven Steinkohlenformation lagert … Kleines Konversations-Lexikon
Millstone — For other uses, see Millstone (disambiguation). The basic anatomy of a millstone. Note that this is a runner stone. A bedstone would not have the Spanish Cross into which the supporting millrynd fits … Wikipedia
grit — [OE] Etymologically, grit is ‘something produced by pounding’. Prehistoric Indo European *ghrēu denoted ‘rub, pound, crush’, and from it came Germanic *greutam ‘tiny particles of crushed or pounded rock’, hence ‘sand, gravel’. Its modern… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
