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grainings

grainings is the plural of graining.

Meaning of graining

Noun (1)

graining (countable and uncountable, plural grainings)

  1. The practice of imitating woodgrain on a surface.
  2. 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
  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.

Noun (2)

graining (plural grainings)

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

Questions about grainings

What is grainings the plural of?
Grainings is the plural of graining.

Words near grainings in the dictionary

  1. grainily
  2. graininess
  3. graininesses
  4. graining
  5. graining up
  6. grainings
  7. grainish
  8. grainland
  9. grainlands
  10. grainless
  11. grainlessness

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