graining

/G R EY1 N IH0 NG/
verb
  1. 1

    To feed grain to.

  2. 2

    To make granular; to form into grains.

  3. 3

    To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.

  4. 4

    To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.

  5. 5

    (tanning) To remove the hair or fat from a skin.

  6. 6

    (tanning) To soften leather.

  7. 7

    To yield fruit.

noun
  1. 1

    The practice of imitating woodgrain on a surface.

  2. 2

    Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins.

  3. 3

    A process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised.

  4. 4

    (soap manufacture) The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt.

noun
  1. 1

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

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