grout

/ɡɹaʊt/

grout means A surname.

grout is pronounced /ɡɹaʊt/.

Etymology

English surname, from the noun grout.

name

A surname.

noun

A thin mortar used to fill the gaps between tiles and cavities in masonry.
Coarse meal; groats.
Dregs, sediment.e.g.“grouts of tea” — 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, chapter V, in Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC:
A kind of beer or ale.

verb

To insert mortar between tiles.e.g.“I spent the whole afternoon grouting the kitchen floor.”
To affix with mortar.e.g.“The year before the pandemic, a sump tank attached to a waste pond sprang a leak and had to be grouted shut.” — December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian:

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