end grain

American  

noun

1. wood grain, as at the end of a board, resulting from a cut across the grain.

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Other Word Forms

• end-grain adjective

Etymology

Origin of end grain

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

It’s got these really cool floors, it’s called end grain wood.

From New York Times • Oct. 11, 2022

Polyurethane glue can be helpful in certain situations, such as when you want to glue the end grain of a piece of wood to another piece of wood.

From Washington Post • Dec. 27, 2018

PVA glue shrinks as it cures, so when you glue the end grain, the joint winds up with almost no glue and is weak.

From Washington Post • Dec. 27, 2018

Choose long, edge-grain strips or blocky end grain.

From Time • Mar. 12, 2015

For planing across the end grain of wood, what are termed block planes are used, the angle of the blade to the sole being from 65 to 85 degrees, as shown in Fig.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua