grout

Meanings

Noun

• A thin mortar used to fill the gaps between tiles and cavities in masonry.
• Coarse meal; groats.
• (typically used in the plural) Dregs, sediment.
• A kind of beer or ale.

Verb

• To insert mortar between tiles.

Origin

• 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-. Related to grit.