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Grinding   /grˈaɪndɪŋ/   Listen
Grinding

noun
1.
Material resulting from the process of grinding.
2.
A harsh and strident sound (as of the grinding of gears).
3.
The wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice.  Synonyms: abrasion, attrition, detrition.


Grind

verb
(past & past part. ground; pres. part. grinding)
1.
Press or grind with a crushing noise.  Synonyms: cranch, craunch, crunch.
2.
Make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together.  Synonym: grate.
3.
Work hard.  Synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail.  "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
4.
Dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced.
5.
Reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading.  Synonyms: bray, comminute, crunch, mash.  "Mash the garlic"
6.
Created by grinding.
7.
Shape or form by grinding.



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"Grinding" Quotes from Famous Books



... comfort from the recent revelations of the white slave traffic when we reflect that at the present moment, in the midst of a freedom such as has never been accorded to young women in the history of the world, under an economic pressure grinding down upon the working girl at the very age when she most wistfully desires to be taken care of, it is necessary to organize a widespread commercial enterprise in order to procure a sufficient number of girls ...
— A New Conscience And An Ancient Evil • Jane Addams
... war, seconding the slowly grinding mills of time, have left but few of these noble monuments; and slowly, but ruthlessly, the work of ...
— The English Governess At The Siamese Court • Anna Harriette Leonowens
... it possible that on leaving the ship I might be in the condition of the woman, whose husband, a fearful snorer, was suddenly called from home. The lady passed several sleepless nights, until she hit upon the expedient of calling a servant with the coffee mill. The vigorous grinding of that household utensil had the effect of a ...
— Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar - Life • Thomas Wallace Knox
... limbs are very well made, and the countenance of the men is often very pleasant. The women are very plain and lumpy, but exceedingly industrious in their gardens from early morning till about 11 A.M., then from 3 P.M. till dark, or pounding corn and grinding it: the men make twine or nets by day, and are at their fisheries in the evenings and nights. They build the ...
— The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 • David Livingstone
... life in a cup-shaped hole which he has excavated in the rock, and shut in by an overhanging lip of living lime—seemingly a Nullipore coralline. What they do there, what they think of, or what food is brought into their curious grinding-mills by the Atlantic surges which thunder over them twice a day, who can tell? However they form, without doubt, the most beautiful object which I have ever seen in pool ...
— Prose Idylls • Charles Kingsley


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