Grift vs Grist - What's the difference?
grift | grist |
a confidence game or swindle.
Grain that is to be ground in a mill.
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, title= (obsolete) A group of bees.
(colloquial, obsolete) Supply; provision.
(ropemaking) A given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands.
As nouns the difference between grift and grist
is that grift is a confidence game or swindle while grist is grain that is to be ground in a mill.As a verb grift
is to obtain illegally, as by con game.grift
English
Noun
(en noun)- as in "What's the Grift?" or "What are you trying to pull?"
Synonyms
* See alsogrist
English
Noun
(-)Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
- (Jonathan Swift)
- (Knight)