graining

graining is the present participle and gerund of grain.

Noun (1)

graining (countable and uncountable, plural grainings)

The practice of imitating woodgrain on a surface.
Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins.
- mark the edges of the rest with a graining1691, [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
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.

grain (third-person singular simple present grains, present participle graining, simple past and past participle grained)

(transitive) To feed grain to.
- He said that no man loved his horses, unless his own hands grained them. Every Christmas he gave them brimming measures.1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities
(transitive) To make granular; to form into grains.
(intransitive) To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
To soften leather.

graining (plural grainings)

plural	grainings

What does graining mean?: Graining means the practice of imitating woodgrain on a surface.
What is graining the present participle and gerund of?: Graining is the present participle and gerund of grain.
What part of speech is graining?: Graining is a noun.
What is the plural of graining?: The plural of graining is grainings.

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