coarse grit

He felt the coarse grit on his tongue and knew the moment of decision had come.

Unfortunately the beach at Bolnuevo is made up of coarse grit.

Pierce the plastic at regular intervals and cover the bottom with coarse grit or gravel to allow some drainage.

Drainage must also be good, so improve thin soil by adding garden compost, or add coarse grit to clay.

Another group of pottery found was of a very rough type, made with chaff-holes and large, coarse grits.

One of these groups bears two types of coarse ware tempered with coarse grit.

A coarser grit is used to remove larger amounts of metal more rapidly, such as when forming an edge or restoring a damaged edge.

A disk pushes downward in precise strokes on a slurry of abrasive material, coarse grit that grinds away on the glass.

I did this by raising the borders as high as possible and mixing large quantities of coarse grit into the soil to make the drainage really sharp.

Anson Mills grits, milled from one-sixth of an inch to one-26th of an inch in diameter, are the coarsest grits produced in this country.

In Roman times coarse grits derived from the lower greensand were used to line the inner surface of mortaria (grinding bowls) produced in the Oxfordshire pottery kilns.

While following the common practice of smaller designators meaning coarser grits and similar cut-off marks between macro- and microgrit standards, the F and P series are not compatible.

A cup of good coarse grits added to three cups of boiling water (with or without salt), simmers down into a thick porridge to serve two or three in 20 minutes.

This distinction is analogous to that between coarse teeth and fine teeth on a saw or file, or between coarse grit and fine grit on sandpaper.

A set of three diamond-surfaced hones with fine, medium and coarse grits would please any outdoorsman, and he will probably show his appreciation of them by touching up all the home's kitchen knives.

Very coarse grits, e.g. 120F, should be avoided, because of their plucking and shattering effects, and their tendency to erode specimen edges preferentially, making it difficult to obtain true, flat faces.

They are commonly available as a double-sided block with a coarse grit on one side and a fine grit on the other enabling one stone to satisfy the basic requirements of sharpening.

Due to the nature of the surrounding rocks, (see mining area and Betics mountain range),however, the beach at Bolnuevo is of coarse grit, as are most of the beaches along this part of the coast.

In most cases three sandings are required: one with coarse grit to get the floor clean; one with medium to get rid of the scratches left by the coarse paper; one with fine, for final smoothing.

For those herbs which have an especial liking for dry, quick-draining root environments, extra coarse grit or even small shingle can be added, e. g., add I potful of grit to 8 similarly-sized potfuls of soil compost.