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grist

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Is grist a Scrabble word?

Yes, grist is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 6 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle Yes
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of grist?

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

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "grist"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "grist"?

Scrabble
6 points
G2
R1
I1
S1
T1
Words With Friends
7 points
G3
R1
I1
S1
T1

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