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grout noun1.
[Old English grut corresp. to Middle Dutch grute, gruut coarse meal, peeled grain, malt, yeast, (Dutch gruit dregs), Middle High German gru (German Grauss) grain, small beer, from Germanic var. of base of GRIT noun1, noun2, GROATS. Cf. GROOT noun.]
Coarse meal, peeled grain. In pl., = GROATS. Now rare. OE.
b. A kind of coarse wholemeal porridge. Now rare or obsolete. L16.
The infusion of malt before and during fermentation. Also, small beer. OE.
Orig., slime, mud. Now, sediment; in pl., dregs, lees, grounds. LME.
Dickens Old women might have told fortunes in them, better than in grouts of tea. A. E. Coppard When he coughed..his insides come up out of him like coffee grouts.