graining

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of grain

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The practice of imitating woodgrain on a surface.
2. (countable, uncountable)Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins.

   “mark the edges of the rest with a graining”

3. (countable, uncountable)A process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised.
4. (countable, uncountable)The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt.
5. A small European freshwater fish (Leuciscus leuciscus); the dobule or dace.