grit3 (grit)

[Origin uncertain.] A kind of crawfish; the sea-crab. Minsheu. [Old and prov. Eng.] Paguro [It.], a kind of creuis or crafish called a grit , a grampell, or a punger. Florio . grit4 (grit), a. A Scotch variant of great. But fair Lady Anne on Sir William call'd, With the tear grit in her ee. Lady Anne (Child's Ballads, II. 263). Yet has sae mony takin' arts, Wi' grit an' sma'. Burns, Holy Willie's Prayer. grith