grist
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Is grist a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A group of bees.countableobsoleteuncountable
2. (colloquial, obsolete) Supply; provision.Examples: "Matter, as wise logicians say, / Cannot without a form subsist; / And form, say I, as well as they, / Must fail if matter brings no grist."colloquialcountableobsoleteuncountable
3. (ropemaking) A given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands.countableuncountable
4. (figurative) Ellipsis of grist for the mill.Examples: "The judge needed a case with the potential for great emotional impact to gain media coverage for his political career. He was running for judgeship on the Nevada Supreme Court. Nicky and I were in the wrong place at the wrong time. We were available, vulnerable, and expendable for political grist."; "True stories are embellished, the casts of fictional dramas stuffed with unlikely non-actors. All is grist to what [Werner] Herzog calls “ecstatic truth”."abbreviationalt-ofcountableellipsisfigurativelyuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To grind in a mill.Examples: "[…] and another mill is erecting on the same stream near Sparrow Lake, to which a run of stones for gristing will be added."; "[…] it cleaned out two hundred and ten bushels called screenings; the balance was sold, gristed and used for seed."transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary