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arpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. To hold, pat, or bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. They might be ashamed, for lack of courage, to suffer the Lacedæmonians to hold their noses to the grindstone. Sir T. North.

A grindstone. [Obs.]

gritrock and gritstone. The name is also applied to a finer sharp-grained sandstone; as, grindstone grit.

ope body, to which an objective is attached. -- To hold, put, or bring one's nose to the grindstone. See under Grindstone. -- To lead by the nose, to lead at pleasure, or to cause to follow submissively; to lead blindly, as a person leads a beast. Shak. -- To put one's nose out of joint, to humiliate one's pride, es…

To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.

Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools. [Prov. Eng.] Sir W. Petty.

The grit worn away from grindstones in grinding cutlery wet. [Prov. Eng.]

[R.] Whitening stone, a sharpening and polishing stone used by cutlers; also, a finishing grindstone of fine texture.

A crank with a handle, for giving motion to a machine, a grindstone, etc.