grit

Object

• tooth: With gritted teeth he just watched the strange cloud fall behind them.
• lorry: A typical run involves 54 gritting lorries spreading 321 tons of salt.
• route: Priority is given to the county's busiest roads and gritting routes are reviewed each year.
• road: The decision by SBC not to grit this road on the basis of a frost warning seemed ludicrous.

Converse of object

• remove: With the majority of the dust, sand a grit removed from the face fiber, we then employ a specially designed hand tool.
• add: Treatment Improve drainage by adding grit or organic matter to heavy soil.

Adjective modifier

• coarse: We put a layer of coarse grit in the bottom of the hole to improve the drainage in our heavy clay soil.
• horticultural: Use horticultural grit or mix 2 to cover seeds lightly.
• angular: A distinctive feature of the fabrics is a considerable number of cavities from which an angular grit has leached.
• recycled: The performance of medium grade recycled glass grit supplied by Wolverhampton Abrasives was compared with copper slag using the same blasting equipment.
• sheer: Emily and Monika deserve special mention here, for sheer grit.
• added: Original Table Seed ( 5 Kg ) With added calcium grit to aid egg production.

Modifies a noun

• bin: Please contact your local Area Roads Office with details of the location of the grit bin.
• sand: Seed compost:- 2 parts light loam; 1part grit sand; 1part peat.
• stone: He was riding in the abrasive grit stone of the Peak District.

Noun used with modifier

• millstone: The Devil's Arrows are made of millstone grit, a type of sandstone not found locally.
• chert: GW3 Thick walled, numerous small to medium chert grits, some small cavities, quartz dust in the clay matrix.
• glass: The performance of medium grade recycled glass grit supplied by Wolverhampton Abrasives was compared with copper slag using the same blasting equipment.

Present participle complement

• blast: Remove any contaminants by use of either a wire brush, grit blasting or water jetting.

Preposition: in

• oyster: You just wish there was a bit more grit in the oyster of California.