Grout
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ɡɹaʊt/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Grout is a noun meaning A thin mortar used to fill the gaps between tiles and cavities in masonry.
Meaning
A thin mortar used to fill the gaps between tiles and cavities in masonry.
More Meanings
- (UK, obsolete) A kind of beer or ale.
- (transitive) To insert mortar between tiles.
- (transitive) To affix with mortar.
- (archaic) Coarse meal; groats.
- (archaic, chiefly in the plural) Dregs, sediment.
Example Sentences
grouts of tea
I spent the whole afternoon grouting the kitchen floor.
* Stitching and grouting fractures in masonry, insertion of date marker tabs for monitoring.
The year before the pandemic, a sump tank attached to a waste pond sprang a leak and had to be grouted shut.
Word Forms
- grouts
- groute
- grouting
- grouted
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mortar, slurry, injection, injecting, glut, rubblework.
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