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Grout   /graʊt/   Listen
Grout

noun
1.
A thin mortar that can be poured and used to fill cracks in masonry or brickwork.





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"Grout" Quotes from Famous Books



... Nowadays a boy cannot follow out a single natural instinct without tumbling over some of those everlasting aphorisms and hearing from Franklin, on the spot. If he buys two cents' worth of peanuts, his father says, "Remember what Franklin has said, my son—'A grout a day's a penny a year"'; and the comfort is all gone out of those peanuts. If he wants to spin his top when he has done work, his father quotes, "Procrastination is the thief of time." If he does a virtuous action, he never gets anything for it, ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
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... become a prominent factor until after the walls have fallen, and one wall may easily last for a century or two centuries longer than another similarly situated. The surface erosion of a standing wall of grout, such as these under discussion, is very slight; photographs of the Casa Grande ruin, extending over a period of sixteen years, and made from practically the same point of view, show that the skyline or silhouette remained essentially unchanged during that ...
— Casa Grande Ruin • Cosmos Mindeleff
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Words linked to "Grout" :   fasten, plaster, secure, fix


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