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gristbite en · VERB

Etymology

From Middle English grisbaten, from Old English gristbitian. Equivalent to grist (“to grind”) + bite.

Meanings

1. (archaic, dialectal) To gnash one's teeth.
   • I’d lean against the door and stare out the car window terror-stricken in any hairpin turn but soon felt my tight gristbit milk teeth were set free by laughing through each shotgun seat squeeze[…] 2017, Ethan Fogus, “Nightdrive”, in How to Make a Mudsparkler, page 8:
   • Mrs. Tolpedden achieved a dashing cannon, and then gave a miss, at which she "grisbetted", as Milly called it. 1866, George Walter Thornbury, Greatheart:

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