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Grist vs Groat - What's the difference?

grist | groat |

As a proper noun grist

is .

As a noun groat is

(chiefly|in the plural) hulled grain or groat can be any of various old coins of england and scotland.

grist

English

Noun

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  • Grain that is to be ground in a mill.
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  • (obsolete) A group of bees.
  • (colloquial, obsolete) Supply; provision.
    • (Jonathan Swift)
  • (ropemaking) A given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands.
    • (Knight)

    Derived terms

    * grist mill / gristmill * it's all grist to the mill

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    groat

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) grotes (pl.), from (etyl) grotan, plural of grot, from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, in the plural) hulled grain
    • Related terms
    * grit, grits * grout, grouts * gruel * meal * semolina

    Etymology 2

    Possibly from (etyl) groot, the (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of various old coins of England and Scotland.
  • An historic English silver coin worth four English pennies, still minted as one of the set of Maundy coins.

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