Crossword clues for grot
grot
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grot \Grot\ (gr[o^]t), n. [F. grotte, It. grotta. See Grotto.]
A grotto. [Poetic]
--Milton.
Grot \Grot\, Grote \Grote\ (gr[=o]t), n.
A groat. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
short for grotto, c.1500; perhaps from or influenced by French grotte.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context poetic English) A grotto. Etymology 2
n. 1 (context slang uncountable English) Any unpleasant substance or material. 2 (context slang countable English) A miserable person.
WordNet
n. a small cave (usually with attractive features) [syn: grotto]
Wikipedia
Grot may refer to:
Grot ( Serbian Cyrillic: Грот) is a mountain in southern Serbia, near the city of Vranje. Its highest peak has an elevation of 1,327 meters above sea level.
Like the nearby Oblik, Grot is an ancient inactive volcano.
Usage examples of "grot".
For regarding Believe-on-Me they said it was nought else but notion and they could conceive no thought of it for, first, Two-in-the-Bush whither she ticed them was the very goodliest grot and in it were four pillows on which were four tickets with these words printed on them, Pickaback and Topsyturvy and Shameface and Cheek by Jowl and, second, for that foul plague Allpox and the monsters they cared not for them for Preservative had given them a stout shield of oxengut and, third, that they might take no hurt neither from Offspring that was that wicked devil by virtue of this same shield which was named Killchild.
Groves whose rich Trees wept odorous Gumms and Balme, Others whose fruit burnisht with Golden Rinde Hung amiable, HESPERIAN Fables true, If true, here onely, and of delicious taste: Betwixt them Lawns, or level Downs, and Flocks Grasing the tender herb, were interpos'd, Or palmie hilloc, or the flourie lap Of som irriguous Valley spread her store, Flours of all hue, and without Thorn the Rose: Another side, umbrageous Grots and Caves Of coole recess, o're which the mantling Vine Layes forth her purple Grape, and gently creeps Luxuriant.
Transmitted by pistons and screws and innumerable valves, the grots and gobs of intelligence bottlenecked in the limited space.
Two wore swords and the silver-rimmed tunic badges of knights: one with the flail and sword of Fief Groten, the other with Tirrsmont's spear and fist badge.
Gordon Liddy and the Grots at a club in the East Village, a film called War of the Zombies which had come and gone earlier that spring.
Now they just fight to the sound of them awful drumbeats, some few still young, most of them old enough for the rocking chair, like us here, all of them stupid grots who only live to kill and kill to live.
For Tilion tamed seldom in Valinor, but more often would pass swiftly over the western land, over Avathar, or Araman, or Valinor, and plunge in the chasm beyond the Outer Sea, pursuing his way alone amid the grots and caverns at the roots of Arda.