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countable and uncountable, plural grouts
A thin mortar used to fill the gaps between tiles and cavities in masonry. examples
(archaic) Coarse meal; groats.
(archaic, chiefly in the plural) Dregs, sediment. quotations
grouts of tea
1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, chapter V, in Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857
(UK, obsolete) A kind of beer or ale.
third-person singular simple present grouts, present participle grouting, simple past and past participle grouted
To insert mortar between tiles. quotations examples
* Stitching and grouting fractures in masonry, insertion of date marker tabs for monitoring.
2020 May 20, Philip Haigh, “Ribblehead: at the heart of the S&C's survival and its revival: Ribblehead Viaduct repairs”, in Rail, page 27
To affix with mortar. quotations examples
The year before the pandemic, a sump tank attached to a waste pond sprang a leak and had to be grouted shut.
December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian