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griot
  • n  a storyteller in West Africa; perpetuates the oral traditions of a family or village
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grind
  • n  an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
  • n  the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground
    a coarse grind of coffee
  • n  hard monotonous routine work
  • n  the act of grinding to a powder or dust
  • v  press or grind with a crushing noise
  • v  make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
  • v  work hard
  • v  dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced
  • v  reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
    grind the spices in a mortar
  • v  created by grinding
    grind designs into the glass bowl
  • v  shape or form by grinding
    grind lenses for glasses and cameras
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grind organ
  • n  a musical instrument that makes music by rotation of a cylinder studded with pegs
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grindelia
  • n  large genus of coarse gummy herbs of western North and Central America
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grindelia robusta
  • n  perennial gumweed of California and Baja California
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grindelia squarrosa
  • n  perennial gumweed of western and central North America
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grinder
  • n  a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
  • n  grinding tooth with a broad crown; located behind the premolars
  • n  machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing
  • n  a machine tool that polishes metal
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grinding
  • n  material resulting from the process of grinding
    vegetable grindings clogged the drain
  • n  a harsh and strident sound (as of the grinding of gears)
  • n  the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice
  • v  press or grind with a crushing noise
  • v  make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
  • v  work hard
  • v  dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced
  • v  reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
  • v  created by grinding
  • v  shape or form by grinding
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grinding wheel
  • n  a wheel composed of abrasive material; used for grinding
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grindle
  • n  primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America
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grindstone
  • n  a revolving stone shaped like a disk; used to grind or sharpen or polish edge tools
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gringo
  • n  a Latin American (disparaging) term for foreigners (especially Americans and Englishmen)
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