graining
Britishnoun
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the pattern or texture of the grain of wood, leather, etc
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the process of painting, printing, staining, etc, a surface in imitation of a grain
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a surface produced by such a process
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So everyone is concerned about tyres - and in particular graining, where the surface tears and grip is lost.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2024
The first recorded flood was in 1780, just a few years after three Quaker brothers from Bucks County, Pa. — Joseph, Andrew and John Ellicott — founded what became a center of milling and graining.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 8, 2016
Nohnan Lounsberry of Wilmington, for instance, received an 1873 patent for improving a machine for “pebbling and graining wet skins.”
From Washington Times ● Mar. 12, 2016
“There was significant graining, scratches and fading, all the things you’d expect from television footage dating back nearly half a century.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 5, 2014
You’ve seen them painter-chaps, sir, graining the shetters of shops?”
From Mad A Story of Dust and Ashes by George Manville Fenn
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