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
- The practice of imitating woodgrain on a surface.
- Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins.
- 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.
- A small European freshwater fish (Leuciscus leuciscus); the dobule or dace.
Example Sentences
mark the edges of the rest with a graining
Word Forms
- grainings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include woodgrain, fluting, grafting, bambooing, grainline, groovework.
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