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What is the noun for gritting?

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grit
  1. A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
    1. Sand or a sand–salt mixture spread on wet and, especially, icy roads and footpaths to improve traction.
  2. Inedible particles in food.
  3. A measure of the relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper, the smaller the number the coarser the abrasive.
  4. (geology) A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit.
  5. Strength of mind; great courage or fearlessness; fortitude.
  6. Synonyms:
      7. shingle, gravel, pebbles, sand, dirt, dust, powder, stones, lumps, foreign matter, chippings, soil, silt, filth, soot, particles, powdery dirt, rocks, screenings, shale, macadam, tailings, backfill, crushed stone, crushed rock, smut, grime, fragments, gilings, flakes, granules, loess, ashes, lint, cinders, fine particles, fine powder, dust bunnies, fine fragments, fortitude, determination, guts, backbone, resolution, courage, pluck, resolve, bravery, nerve, spirit … more
  7. Examples:
      8. “Wash them well in fresh, clear water to remove any grit or insects.”
      “He showed true grit as he completed the 4.3-mile run in 55 minutes in spite of suffering from prostate cancer.”
grit
  1. (plural) Husked but unground oats.
  2. (plural) Coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. shingle, gravel, pebbles, sand, dirt, dust, powder, stones, lumps, foreign matter, chippings, soil, silt, filth, soot, particles, powdery dirt, rocks, screenings, shale, macadam, tailings, backfill, crushed stone, crushed rock, smut, grime, fragments, gilings, flakes, granules, loess, ashes, lint, cinders, fine particles, fine powder, dust bunnies, fine fragments, fortitude, determination, guts, backbone, resolution, courage, pluck, resolve, bravery, nerve, spirit … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “Wash them well in fresh, clear water to remove any grit or insects.”
      “He showed true grit as he completed the 4.3-mile run in 55 minutes in spite of suffering from prostate cancer.”
gritter
  1. A vehicle that applies grit to icy roads to improve traction
  2. Examples:
      3. “Highways England's gritter drivers have noticed a growing problem with road users veering onto the hard shoulder to avoid being struck by salt.”
      “A FLEET of 25 gritter trucks are now on standby in Birmingham poised and ready for the next big freeze.”
      “They are targeting gritter undertakers who put lives at risk by swerving to the hard shoulder to avoid being hit by salt.”
grittiness
  1. The characteristic or quality of being gritty.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. fortitude, grit, backbone, spunk, pluck, guts, constancy, fiber, fibre, intestinal fortitude, resolution, resolve, spirit, determination, toughness, heart, mettle, moxie, hardihood, strength of character, tenacity, steel, strength, steadfastness, nerve, firmness, stamina, pluckiness, firmness of purpose, resilience, courage, bravery, courageousness, daring, perseverance, resoluteness, bottle, valour, endurance, hardiness, doughtiness, spine, balls, gumption, valor, moral fiber, boldness, strength of will, moral fibre, toughness of spirit … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Very often the texture of pear-flesh is marred by grittiness to which some varieties are much more subject than others.”
      “It lacked the raw, grittiness of the novel and the ending was a complete cop-out.”
      “So even though it was fictional, there was a grittiness and a realism to it that was different.”
gritting
  1. The act by which something is gritted.
grits
  1. plural of grit ('hulled oats')
  2. (Western Hemisphere) Coarsely ground hominy which is boiled and eaten, primarily in the Southern United States.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. porridge, oats, oatmeal, polenta, mush, gruel, frumenty, pottage, crowdie, loblolly, samp, breakfast cereal, potage, congee, thin porridge, cereal, food, muesli, granola, supawn, hominy, sepon, sepawn, hot cereal, hasty pudding, Indian meal … more
grittinesses
  1. plural of grittiness
  2. Synonyms:
      3. fortitudes, grits, backbones, spunks, pluck, guts, constancies, fibers, fibres, intestinal fortitude, resolutions, resolves, spirits, determinations, toughnesses, hearts, mettles, moxie, hardihoods, tenacities, steels, strengths, steadfastnesses, nerves, firmnesses, stamina, pluckiness, resiliences, courages, braveries, courageousness, darings, perseverances, resolutenesses, valours, bottles, endurances, doughtiness, hardinesses, spines, balls, gumptions, valors, moral fibers, boldnesses, moral fibres, intrepidities, doggednesses, gameness, ballsiness … more
grittings
  1. plural of gritting
gritters
  1. plural of gritter
  2. Examples:
      3. “The Council have deployed six gritters and four snowploughs and these will cover all the major roads in the county.”
      “The gritters were out in force on Sunday and Monday and motorists were urged to drive carefully.”
      “Swindon Council admitted it was caught short as a blizzard left no time for gritters to take to the roads across the borough.”
grits
  1. plural of grit
  2. Synonyms:
      3. porridge, oats, oatmeal, polenta, mush, gruel, frumenty, pottage, crowdie, loblolly, samp, breakfast cereal, potage, congee, thin porridge, cereal, food, muesli, granola, supawn, hominy, sepon, sepawn, hot cereal, hasty pudding, Indian meal … more
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