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verb

Grind v. t. (past & past part. ground; pres. part. grinding)

1.

To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones. "Take the millstones, and grind meal."

2.

To wear down, polish, or sharpen, by friction; to make smooth, sharp, or pointed; to whet, as a knife or drill; to rub against one another, as teeth, etc.

3.

To oppress by severe exactions; to harass. "To grind the subject or defraud the prince."

4.

To study hard for examination; commonly used with away; as, to grind away at one's studies. (College Slang)

Grind v. i. (past & past part. ground; pres. part. grinding)

1.

To perform the operation of grinding something; to turn the millstones. "Send thee Into the common prison, there to grind."

2.

To become ground or pulverized by friction; as, this corn grinds well.

3.

To become polished or sharpened by friction; as, glass grinds smooth; steel grinds to a sharp edge.

4.

To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.

5.

To perform hard and distasteful service; to drudge; to study hard, as for an examination.

adjective

Grinding adj., n. From Grind.

Grinding frame, an English name for a cotton spinning machine.

Grinding mill.

(a)

A mill for grinding grain.

(b)

A lapidary's lathe.

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Etymology of 'Grinding'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Grinding" Quotes from Famous Books

... with a look measured the space yet to be covered, the distance of the foe, and the rate at which he was coming. Nor less did they measure the danger. They too heard its warning, the muffled roar as of rocks and trees snatched up and grinding to atoms in the inner coils ...

— The Prince of India - Or - Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 1 • Lew. Wallace

... or settles compose the necessaries; the ornaments are the saints hanging to the walls, and for windows there are shutters with a sliding panel. The feeding apparatus consists of a kind of quern for grinding corn, especially maize, ...

— To the Gold Coast for Gold - A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.--Vol. I • Richard F. Burton

... as the last wagon, loaded with the last casks of grapes, rolled slowly with heavy grinding wheels toward the cellars of Sant' Aloisa. With the wagon there were a few men enfeebled with fever, a few women shivering with ague. I walked behind the wagon, pushing it to aid the weary oxen. There was no moon: here and there a torch flickered in a copper sconce filled with oil. The courtyard ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. • Various

... strategy was already apparent to Chocholous when, in an article on the classification of chess problems (Deutsche Schachzeitung, 1890), he warned the younger practitioners of the Bohemian school against what has been dubbed by H. Von Gottschall Varianten-leierei, or "the grinding out of variations." When this one reservation is made few will be inclined to dispute the pre-eminence of the Bohemian school. To some tastes, however, a greater appeal is made by the deeper play of ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 - "Chtelet" to "Chicago" • Various

... intervals, as guards, to give notice of the approach of the police, and from these we learned that one duel had already been fought, and they were preparing for the other. The Red Fisherman was busy in an outer room grinding the swords, which are made as sharp as razors. In the large room some forty or fifty students were walking about, while the parties were preparing. This was done by taking off the coat and vest and binding a great thick leather garment on, which reached from the breast to the knees, completely ...

— Views a-foot • J. Bayard Taylor

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