grain
noun
a small, hard seed, especially the seed of a food plant such as wheat, corn, rye, oats, rice, or millet.
grainer
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a word derived from
grain.
Example Sentences
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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 William Cowper Brann
Later on he learned to be a painter and grainer, then a printer, a reporter, and finally an editorial writer.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by William Cowper Brann
Well, I'm a real painter: grainer, finisher, thirty-eight bob a week when I can get it.
From Major Barbara by Bernard Shaw
Painter and grainer it were vain To say he was, before; And if he were, yet ne'er again He'll darken here a door.
From Black Beetles in Amber by Ambrose Bierce
When they become larger, they drop to the bottom of the grainer.
From Diggers in the Earth by Eva March Tappan
