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Grinding   /grˈaɪndɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Grind  v. t.  (past & past part. ground; pres. part. grinding)  
1.
To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones. "Take the millstones, and grind meal."
2.
To wear down, polish, or sharpen, by friction; to make smooth, sharp, or pointed; to whet, as a knife or drill; to rub against one another, as teeth, etc.
3.
To oppress by severe exactions; to harass. "To grind the subject or defraud the prince."
4.
To study hard for examination; commonly used with away; as, to grind away at one's studies. (College Slang)


Grind  v. i.  (past & past part. ground; pres. part. grinding)  
1.
To perform the operation of grinding something; to turn the millstones. "Send thee Into the common prison, there to grind."
2.
To become ground or pulverized by friction; as, this corn grinds well.
3.
To become polished or sharpened by friction; as, glass grinds smooth; steel grinds to a sharp edge.
4.
To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
5.
To perform hard and distasteful service; to drudge; to study hard, as for an examination.


adjective
Grinding  adj., n.  From Grind.
Grinding frame, an English name for a cotton spinning machine.
Grinding mill.
(a)
A mill for grinding grain.
(b)
A lapidary's lathe.





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"Grinding" Quotes from Famous Books



... a savage grandeur in this coast, carved by eternal conflict with storms and glaciers, bergs and grinding ice-fields; but behind the frowning outer mask nestle in summer many grass-carpeted, flower-sprinkled, sun-kissed nooks. Millions of little auks breed along this shore. Between the towering cliffs are glaciers which launch at intervals their fleets of bergs upon the sea; before ...
— The North Pole - Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club • Robert E. Peary
... of Barnriff were as keenly alive to the prevailing excitements as the men. Perhaps they were affected differently, but this was only natural. The village, with its doings, its gossip, was their life. The grinding monotony of household drudgery left them little margin for expansion. Their horizon possessed the narrowest limits in consequence. Nor could it be otherwise. Most of them lived in a state of straining two ends across ...
— The One-Way Trail - A story of the cattle country • Ridgwell Cullum
... largely so only in name. So far back as the Rover boys could remember, it had been a tenantless structure going slowly to decay. The water wheel was gone, and so were the grinding stones, and the roof and sides were full of holes. Henderson, the owner, had years ago fallen heir to a fortune, and had moved away, leaving the building at the mercy of the ...
— The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle - or The Strange Cruise of the Steam Yacht. • Edward Stratemeyer (AKA Arthur M. Winfield)
... exclaimed, shrugging his shoulders, and grinding his teeth in impotent rage. You are mad! I have told you the truth, and you will not believe it. Well—on your head be it then, Mademoiselle. I have no more to say! You ...
— Under the Red Robe • Stanley Weyman
... the minority, and indeed a close search will often fail to show them. Clearly, then, the till is not of the nature of a terminal moraine. Each stone in the 'till' gives evidence of having been subjected to a grinding process. ...
— Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel • Ignatius Donnelly


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