See Also: grout(1)(dictionary)
grout(2)(dictionary)
grout(3)(dictionary)
grout(4)(dictionary)
grout(5)(dictionary)
grout(dictionary)

tirailleur (iou) and grout(3) (iou)


tirailleur (iou)



tirailleur noun. L18.
[French, from tirailler fire in skirmishing order, from tirer draw, shoot (see TIRE verb2) + -eur -OR.]
French History. Any of a body of skirmishers employed in the French Revolutionary War in 1792; a skirmisher, a sharpshooter; a soldier trained for independent action.

grout(3) (iou)



grout verb1. E18.
[from GROUT noun1 or var. of GROOT verb.]
verb intrans. Of a pig: turn up the ground with the snout; root. E18.
fig.: N. Annan Jowett..encouraged his undergraduates to grout among the pearls that he cast before them.
verb trans. Turn up with the snout. L19.