grouts
noun
[ ɡraʊts ]
• sediment, dregs, or grounds.
• "old women told fortunes in grouts of tea"
Origin:
Old English grūt, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch gruit ‘dregs’, German Grauss ‘grain, weak beer’, also to grits and groats. The original meaning was ‘coarse meal, groats’, also denoting the infusion of malt which was fermented to make beer, hence, in Middle English, ‘sediment’.
grout
verb
• fill in with grout.
• "soak off the facing paper with a damp sponge, then grout the tiles"
Origin:
mid 17th century: perhaps from grouts, or related to French dialect grouter ‘grout a wall’.
