graining

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of grain

plural grainings

1. countableuncountableThe practice of imitating woodgrain on a surface.
2. countableuncountableIndentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins.

   mark the edges of the rest with a graining

   1691, [John Locke], Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest, and Raising the Value of Money. […], London: […] Awnsham and John Churchill, […], published 1692, →OCLC

3. countableuncountableA process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised.
4. countableuncountablesoap manufactureThe process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt.

plural grainings

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