graining

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Etymology 1[edit]

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graining

  1. present participle and gerund of grain

Noun[edit]

graining (countable and uncountable, plural grainings)

  1. The practice of imitating woodgrain on a surface.
  2. 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
  3. A process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised.
  4. (soap manufacture) The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt.
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Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

graining (plural grainings)

  1. A small European freshwater fish (Leuciscus leuciscus); the dobule or dace.

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