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sekket. O.N. grøypa (greypa), vb., to groove (No. grøypa), to fit into a groove.

grøt¹ [grøt], sb., stone, a species of stone, comm. in the compd. “mill-grøt” (Eng. mill-grit), a species of stone from which millstones are made, micaceous gneiss (acc. to S. Hibbert); see *grud, sb. An obsolete form *grød [grø̄d] is found in sense of: a) rocky ground; a rocky stretch of coast; collection of big boulders or fragments of rock; b) a stony ford; a low-lying, rocky tract, shaped like a neck or tongue of land, connecting a smaller piece of land with a larger — now only used as a place-name, though the meaning of the word is still understood, and it is always prefixed by the definite article; in sense b, esp. in “de Skerries (East Skerries)”: de *grød (Grød) o’ Grøni [*grœn-øy; see *grøn, adj.], de *grød o’ de holm, de *grød o’ Mjones [*mjáfanes, *mjánes, “the narrow headland”]; the last name denoting a part of “de West Isle” (one of the Skerries), and used esp. by Lunnasting fishermen, while the Skerri-men commonly call the place “de Stig [sti̇̄g] o’ Mjones”. In sense a (loosened rocks, collection of big boulders), *grød is found esp. in Eshanes, Nm^w., in the foll. place-names which stand on the border between a place-name and a common noun: de Grød o’ Tangwik [tanok]; de Grød o’ de Isle (Isle o’ Stenhus); de Grød o’ de Skerri (Stenhus). In Fo.: de Grøds, a stony stretch of the hill “de Kame”. Otherwise the word is found as a place-name also in forms such as: Grod [grōd], Grud [grūd] and Grøt [grøt], e.g. de Grods (Uⁿ. and Conn.), now culitivated land; de Grud (U^w.), a rocky strip of coast; de Gruds (Tumlin, Ai.), name of a farm; de Grøt o’ Stavanes (N.), stony beach. In sense b of the preceding

*grød is found in Fe. a form *grod- in the place-name “de Grodins [grōdins], two skerries connected with the Isle of Fetlar by low-lying, rocky necks, and also in Uⁿ. groit [grɔit]- in “Stakken groiti [stakən grɔiti]” (Norwick), a high sea-rock, connected with the mainland by a low, rocky neck, prob. orig. *stakkrinn í grjóti. See further *grud, sb., and Shetl. Stedn. pp. 100—101. O.N. grjót, n., stone, a species of stone (esp. material for building); No. grjot (grjøt), n., also a collection of big boulders under or by the water, a stony ford (R.).

grøt² [grøt (grøⁱt)], sb., dregs of train-oil; sediment of cod-liver oil. comm. “grøⁱt” is noted down in Fe.; otherwise comm. “grøt”. Icel. grútr, m., id.

grøta [grø̄ta], grøtek [grø̄tək, grøtək] and grødek [grødək], sb., a pot, now only preserved as a tabu-name, sea-term in fishermen’s lang. U. In the colloq. lang.: a kettle. O.N. grýta, f., a pot. See ringlodi, sb.

grøti¹ [grøti], sb. and adj. in the expr. “g.-oil, g. oil”, — grøt², sb. Wh.

grøti² [grøti], sb., a wisp of straw, greased with train-oil dregs, which is dipped into the water in angling with fishing-rod (from the shore), in order to produce fat (ljum, ljumi) on the water so as to allure the fish. Uⁿ. Deriv. of grøt², sb. Is called grøti-mollek in Du.; see the foll. word.

grøti-mollek [grøti-mɔᶅək], sb., 1) = grøti², sb. 2) the belly of a fish, filled with liver from fish and boiled, = liver-mogi. Du. See grøt², sb., and mollek¹, sb.

grøtlekrabb [grøⁱt··ləkrab·], sb., a kind of tiny, grey crab, often found in shells (trumpet-shells); hermit-crab. Also groltakrabb [grȯⁱ‘lta-, grȯ·ᶅtakrab] and goltakrabb [gȯ‘ᶅ··-