ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Graining

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Graining is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of grain.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of grain.

More Meanings

  1. The practice of imitating woodgrain on a surface.
  2. Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins.
  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.
  5. A small European freshwater fish (Leuciscus leuciscus); the dobule or dace.

Example Sentences

mark the edges of the rest with a graining

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include woodgrain, fluting, grafting, bambooing, grainline, groovework.

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