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Well, I'm a real painter: grainer, finisher, thirty-eight bob a week when I can get it.

From Major Barbara by Shaw, Bernard

An alkaline solution consisting of the dung of certain animals; Ð employed in the preparation of hides; grainer.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

Crystals form much better if the water is perfectly smooth, and to bring this about a very little oil is poured into the grainer.

From Diggers in the Earth by Tappan, Eva March

For a perfect vacuum the brine is boiled at less than 100° F., while in an open pan or grainer it requires 226° to boil brine.

From Diggers in the Earth by Tappan, Eva March

Among other things he learned the trade of painter and grainer, also that of printer, all the time storing his mind with what scraps of education that his life of poverty and toil permitted.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by Brann, William Cowper