Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
grit , 3.
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- noun A form of
sedimentary rock , similar tosandstone butcoarser .
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- noun a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone
Etymologies
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Examples
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Germoe till last century, when they were broken up for road-metal, and that they consisted of a kind of gritstone common enough to the Crowza
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A buzzard cried somewhere beyond Hayes Farm; otherwise there was no sign of animal life in all that windswept country below the crest of the western gritstone uplands.
Country diary: Staffordshire Moorlands Roger Redfern 2010
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The high gritstone Dark Peak countryside remains a true wilderness, even though on a mist-free day you can see the fringes of Manchester and Sheffield from its tops.
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Geographically it is part of the Pennine range and its gritstone fells and sweeping heather moorland are perfect for gentle walks.
Accommodation review | The Spread Eagle, Sawley, Lancashire 2011
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The Kinder Scout plateau is a more or less flat slab of gritstone overlain by a thick layer of peat.
Archive 2010-07-01 Carla 2010
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A little further on, and it threaded through a jumble of gritstone boulders and plunged over a rocky fall to vanish in a dark hollow scooped out of the plateau side.
Archive 2010-07-01 Carla 2010
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Hogweed blooms tall and bold in the dank lanesides that create such a complex network in this broad, green trench sandwiched between the limestone plateau to the east and the tawny upthrust of gritstone moors westward.
Country diary 2010
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More precisely, at the bottom of a twisting channel where an icy stream had carved its way through the peat to the underlying gritstone.
Archive 2010-07-01 Carla 2010
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As we came up to the crest of nearby Carrhead Rocks, a tumble of gritstone boulders with a spectacular view across the Hope Valley, the profusion of burgeoning bracken among the heaped stones reminded me that here, beneath the waving green fronds, the chicks could have a sporting chance of avoiding their predators.
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Climbing a steep lane immediately below the long gritstone escarpment of Stanage Edge the other day we had a quite different experience of wayside life.
bilby commented on the word gritstone
"Alongside the stately homes, ordinary domestic architecture from the 16th century onwards can also still be seen in rural areas: black-and-white 'half-timbered' houses still characterise counties such as Worcestershire, brick-and-flint cottages pepper Suffolk and Sussex, and hardy, centuries-old farms built with slate or local gritstone are a feature of areas such as Derbyshire, north Wales and the Lake District."
- multiple authors, 'Great Britain' (Lonely Planet guide).
September 28, 2008