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gruel

gruɪl
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Interesting fact
During Hell Week (the most grueling portion of training) the trainees get 4 hours of sleep.
  1. (n) gruel
    a thin porridge (usually oatmeal or cornmeal)
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Gruel
    A light, liquid food, made by boiling meal of maize, oatmeal, or flour in water or milk; thin porridge.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) gruel
    A fluid or semi-liquid food, usually for infants or invalids, made by boiling meal or any farinaceous substance in water.
  2. (n) gruel
    Hence Any pasty mess.
  3. gruel
    To exhaust; use up; disable.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Gruel
    grōō′el a thin food made by boiling oatmeal in water.
Quotations
Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.
Robert Neville
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary OF. gruel, F. gruau,; of German origin; cf. OHG. gruzzi, groats, G. grütze, As. grūt,. See Grout

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary O. Fr. gruel (Fr. gruau), groats—Low L. grutellum, dim. of grutum, meal—Old Low Ger. grut, groats, A.S. grút.

Usage in the news

The first Top of Zion Relay Race awesome & grueling . sunews.net

Towanda's Harris Enters NFL's Supplemental Draft, Pios Prepare for Grueling Stretch. eny.com

Phelps will try to qualify for Olympics in the grueling 400 IM. chicagotribune.com

On grueling journey, Edmonds musher finds triumph. heraldnet.com

Cavs ready for grueling week of postseason golf. albanyherald.com

Without regard to one political party you may support, I cannot help but express concern about the grueling presidential campaign we are now witnessing. antonnews.com

Like so many of China's rural poor, Zhang Changhua and Chen Suqin left behind their infant children for grueling factory jobs in the city. pbs.org

It can be a grueling affair, full of uninspiring displays of human behavior that can suck the joy right out of a person's holiday spirit. 973thedawg.com

A below-strength Illinois Racing Board, after a grueling day of testimony and deliberation, required two voice votes Sept 25 to approve a hotly contested schedule for 2013 live racing. bloodhorse.com

Nigel, the Iditarod Husky who bolted into the Alaska wilderness after his sled crashed about 200 miles into the grueling 1,100-mile Anchorage-to-Nome race, has been found. dogchannel.com

INDIANAPOLIS — After a grueling and bitter campaign season, it can take a little Hoosier wisdom to put things in perspective . courierpress.com

FAIRBANKS — A trio of Fairbanksans competed in the Iron Man Cozumel in Mexico, with two of them completing the grueling event. newsminer.com

"I like to tell the seniors who were at Junction that we had four Junctions ," Crow said with a laugh of Bryant's grueling August camps in College Station, "and they only had one. mysanantonio.com

At 29 years old, he is not just attempting the Ironman competition, but a much more grueling feat, The World Cup Ultra-Triathlon in Mexico starting this weekend. 92moose.fm

Before resting from the grueling presidential race, John McCain began discussing with senior aides what role he will play in the Senate now that he has promised to work with the man who defeated him for president. kake.com

Usage in scientific papers

The outcome of about a year of grueling discussions and trade studies as to the details of the mission, was to abandon servicing.
The Making of the Chandra X-ray Observatory: the Project Scientist's Perspective

Finally, we should mention that another motivation for the questions on ACM vector bundles comes from the conjectures of Buchweitz-Gruel-Schreyer (see [BGS], Conjecture B) on the triviality of low rank ACM bundles on hypersurfaces (see [R] for more details).
Arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay Bundles on complete intersection varieties of sufficiently high multidegree

Usage in literature

OATMEAL GRUEL FOR BABIES. "The Community Cook Book" by Anonymous

Not until all of his companions had drunk, and swallowed a few mouthfuls of the barley-gruel, did Jim himself partake of anything. "The Boy Slaves" by Mayne Reid

On the small iron shelf I found a tin dish used by some previous occupant, and smeared inside and out with gruel. "Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison" by Austin Biron Bidwell

Milk and gruel same as at 6 A. M., but four ounces only. "The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4)" by W. Grant Hague

Will I make you some gruel or a cup of tea? "Allison Bain" by Margaret Murray Robertson

They ate spaceman's gruel, heated on a little electric stove. "The Planet Strappers" by Raymond Zinke Gallun

Stover, in the long grueling days of practice, had won the respect of all. "The Varmint" by Owen Johnson

Thus we were haled before Mrs. Handsomebody, questioned, upbraided, and given, at last, a bowl of hot gruel apiece. "Explorers of the Dawn" by Mazo de la Roche

She had brought a bowl of hot gruel on a little waiter. "Captain Horace" by Sophie May

He ordered some sort of gruel for me, but wouldn't let me have meat and things. "How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion or, The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit - 1887" by George W. Peck

Usage in poetry
But we mustered out, some to beer and gruel
And some to sherry and shad,
And I went back to the Sawbones School,
Where I still was an undergrad.
There was an old man of Tobago,
Who lived on rice, gruel and sago
Till, much to his bliss,
His physician said this -
To a leg, sir, of mutton you may go.
There was an Old Person of Ewell,
Who chiefly subsisted on gruel;
But to make it more nice
He inserted some mice,
Which refreshed that Old Person of Ewell.
I watch men thronging home, No work to do,
They idle all day long, Day after day. Slowly the sun goes down.
Rice gruel and dried plums,
The gruel is thin and white,
The plums blood-red.
Listen, soldier, to the tale of the tender nightingale,
'Tis a charm that soon will ease your wounds so cruel,
Singing medicine for your pain, in a sympathetic strain,
With a jug, jug, jug of lemonade or gruel.
On water-gruel he lives, and dies,—
For death makes free his soul for the skies;
And as for its carcass asleep,—
Into his muscles the surgeon pries;
For Science claims such cheap supplies,
Society's pay for his keep!