Grain

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• Grain

  ·noun To yield fruit. II. Grain ·noun A tine, prong, or fork. III. Grain ·noun A blade of a sword,...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• grain

  1) A particle; a bit. Ex. 'I don't care a grain;' 'Push the candle a grain further from you.' 2) Th...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• grain

  to choke. S. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• grain

  In the grain of, is immediately preceding another ship in the same direction. ♦ Bad-grain, a sea-l...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• grain-staff

  a quarter -staff, with a short pair of tines at the end, called grains. S. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• grain upset

  When a mast suffers by buckles, it is said to have its grain upset. A species of wrinkle on the soft...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• turkey-grain

  A name for maize. ...

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• against the grain

  Unwilling. It went much against the grain with him, i.e. it was much against his inclination, or aga...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• knave in grain

  A knave of the first rate: a phrase borrowed from the dyehouse, where certain colours are said to be...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• grain of timber

  In a transverse section of a tree, two different grains are seen: those running in a circular manner...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• grain-cut timber

  That which is cut athwart the grain when the grain of the wood does not partake of the shape require...

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