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Grit can refer to: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary logo Wiktionary is a Wikimedia Foundation project intended to be a free wiki dictionary (including thesaurus and lexicon) in almost every language. ...

a collection of hard small materials, such as coarse dirt or ground rock; may mean the material on sandpaper and other polishing materials used in lapidary

Grit (magazine), a U.S. periodical founded as a newspaper in 1882

Grits, a corn-based food common in the Southern United States and Southern Manchuria

Clear Grits, reformers in the Province of Upper Canada, a British colony that is now the Province of Ontario, Canada

Grits, a media term for the Liberal Party of Canada

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Category: Disambiguation sheets of sandpaper Sandpaper is a form of paper where an abrasive material has been fixed to its surface; it is part of the coated abrasives family of abrasive products. ... A lapidary (the word means concerned with stones) is an artisan who practices the craft of working, forming and finishing stone, mineral, gemstones, and other suitably durable materials (amber, shell, jet, pearl, copal, coral, horn and bone, glass and other synthetics) into functional and/or decorative, even wearable, items (e. ... The Grit office as it looked in the 1890s Grit was a newspaper founded in 1882 as the Saturday edition of the Williamsport, Pennsylvania Daily Sun & Banner. ... Grits and a waffle. ... Clear Grits were Upper Canadian reformers with support concentrated among southwestern Ontario farmers, who were frustrated and disillusioned by the 1849 Reform government of Robert Baldwin and Louis_Hippolyte Lafontaines lack of radicalism. ...

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Music - GRITS (1245 words)
	Best-selling hip-hop duo GRITS candidly discusses the dichotomy of remaining true to their calling and their culture.
	Grits' singular resolve is to stick to their creative guns.
	Grits have graced the pages of many major music publications numerous times as well, from The Source to XXL to Spin to Vibe.

Clear Grits - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (265 words)
	Clear Grits were reformers in the Province of Upper Canada, a British colony that is now the Province of Ontario, Canada.
	The Clear Grits advocated universal male suffrage, representation by population, democratic institutions and free trade with the United States.
	The word "Grit" is used as a neutral reference to members of the Liberal Party in English Canada.

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