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present participle and gerund of grain examples
countable and uncountable, plural grainings
The practice of imitating woodgrain on a surface. examples
Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins. quotations examples
mark the edges of the rest with a graining
1691, [John Locke], Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest, and Raising the Value of Money. […], London: […] Awnsham and John Churchill, […], published 1692
A process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised. examples
(soap manufacture) The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt. examples
plural grainings
A small European freshwater fish (Leuciscus leuciscus); the dobule or dace. examples