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  1. grists: Merriam-Webster
  2. grists: Vocabulary.com
  3. Grist's: Wordnik
  4. grists: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. grists: Wiktionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (grist)

noun:  Grain that is to be ground in a mill.
noun:  (obsolete) A group of bees.
noun:  (colloquial, obsolete) Supply; provision.
noun:  (ropemaking) A given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands.
verb:  (transitive) To grind in a mill.
noun:  (figurative) Ellipsis of grist for the mill. [(idiomatic) Something that is useful or that creates a favorable opportunity.]
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