graining
English
editEtymology 1
editVerb
editgraining
- present participle and gerund of grain
Noun
editgraining (countable and uncountable, plural grainings)
- The practice of imitating woodgrain on a surface.
- Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins.
- 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, →OCLC:
- mark the edges of the rest with a graining
- A process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised.
- (soap manufacture) The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editpractice of imitating woodgrain
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Etymology 2
editNoun
editgraining (plural grainings)
- A small European freshwater fish (Leuciscus leuciscus); the dobule or dace.