grout

Significado (Inglês)

Noun

1. A thin mortar used to fill the gaps between tiles and cavities in masonry.
2. Coarse meal; groats.
3. Dregs, sediment.
4. (obsolete) A kind of beer or ale.

Verb

1. To insert mortar between tiles.
2. To affix with mortar.

Sinônimos

mortar

grouting

plaster

point

poke

cement

stop up

fill in

parget

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ɡɹaʊt/

Etimologia (Inglês)

From Middle English growte, grut, from Old English grūt (“dregs; coarse meal”), from Proto-Germanic *grūtą (compare Dutch gruit (“dregs”), German Grauß, Norwegian grut (“ground”)), lengthening of Proto-Germanic *grutą, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to grind, rub”). Related to grit.