against the grain
Preventing a smooth, level surface from being formed by raising the nap of the wood or causing larger splinters to form ahead of the cutting tool below the cutting surface.
grain
UK /ɡɹeɪn/ US /ɡɹeɪn/
noun 10verb 5name 2
Definitions
noun
1
The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
We stored a thousand tons of grain for the winter.
2
Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
3
A single seed of grass food crops.
a grain of wheat
grains of oat
4
The crops from which grain is harvested.
The fields were planted with grain.
A grain, which in England is generally given to horſes, but which in Scotland ſupports the people.
5
A linear texture of a material or surface.
Cut along the grain of the wood.
He doesn't like to shave against the grain.
verb
1
To feed grain to.
He said that no man loved his horses, unless his own hands grained them. Every Christmas he gave them brimming measures.
2
To make granular; to form into grains.
3
To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
4
To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
5
To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
noun
1
A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant; an offshoot.
2
A tine, prong, or fork.
3
A tine, prong, or fork.
Served 5 lb of fish per man which was caught by striking with grains
4
A tine, prong, or fork.
5
A tine, prong, or fork.
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