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GRITSTONE
grit, gritrock, gritstone
(noun) a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
gritstone (countable and uncountable, plural gritstones)
A form of sedimentary rock, similar to sandstone but coarser.
Anagrams
• rosetting
Source: Wiktionary
Grit"rock`, Grit"stone` n. (Geol.)
Definition: See Grit, n., 4.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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