1879. W. D. Howells, Lady of the Aroostook, ch. vii. After all, it
does grind me to have lost that money!
Also grinding = (1) the act of reading or studying hard; (2) the act or
occupation of preparing students, for an examination; and (3) the act
of copulation.
On the grind, subs. phr. (venery).—Said of incontinent persons of both
sexes. Also of prostitutes.
To grind an axe.—See Axe.
To get a grind on one, verb. phr. (American).—To play practical jokes;
to tell a story against one; to annoy or vex.
To grind wind, verb. phr. (old prison).—To work the treadmill. See
Everlasting Staircase.
1889. Clarkson and Richardson. Police, p. 322. On the treadmill ...
grinding wind.
Grinder, subs. (college).—1. A private tutor; a coach (q.v.). Cf.,
Crammer.
1812. Miss Edgeworth, Patronage, ch. iii. Put him into the hands of
a clever grinder or crammer, and they would soon cram the necessary
portion of Latin and Greek into him.
1841. Punch, vol. I., p. 201. Then contriving to accumulate five
guineas to pay a grinder, he routs out his old note books from the
bottom of his box and commences to read.
1841. A. Smith, ‘The London Medical Student’ in Punch, i., p. 229.
G was a grinder, who sharpen’d the the fools.
1849. Thackeray, Pendennis, ch. v. She sent me down here with a
grinder. She wants me to cultivate my neglected genius.