Grit is the stuff which causes friction.
Sometimes that's a good thing:
photo of sandpaper by Simon Eugster
A grinding stone can be made of the kind of sandstone called grit, too:
millstone grit formation, photo by Ceri Thomas
Sometimes grit is a nuisance (though even then....):
pearl in oyster, photo by Manfred Heyde
Sometimes it's even heroic, if the kind of grit you're talking about is courage or determination:
Mostly, luckily, the nearest we have to get to that is having to grit our teeth from time to time.
Hope today's grits are all the good kind:
photo by Ernesto Andrade
(Though opinions differ widely and passionately about whether that stuff is a good kind.)
Spot the Frippet: grit. This word is grēot in Old English.
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