graining

graining

1. present participle of grain

graining (countable and uncountable, plural grainings)

1. The practice of imitating woodgrain on a surface.
2. Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins.
   • 1691, John Locke, Some considerations of the consequences of lowering the interest and raising the value of money

     mark the edges of the rest with a graining

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.

graining (plural grainings)

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

• inraging