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▪ I. grainer1|ˈgreɪnə(r)|
[f. grain v.1 + -er1.]
One who or that which grains.
1. Leather-dressing.
a. (See quots. and cf. bate n.3).
b. A tool either for taking off the hair of skins, or for producing the appearance of ‘grain’.
a.1813Sir H. Davy Agric. Chem. (1844) 237 The contents of the grainer, as the pit is called in which soft skins are prepared by dung, must form a very useful manure. 1852C. Morfit Tanning & Currying 350 This alkaline lye consists of water impregnated with pigeon's or hen's dung, and is technically termed a grainer, or bate. 1895E. Anglian Gloss., Grainer, a vat used in tanning—in the second operation.
b.1839[see grain n.1 13 c]. 1852C. Morfit Tanning & Currying 384 When nearly dry, the lustre is given with a finely grooved pummel, or grainer, passed over in both directions.
2. Salt-making. (See quot.; cf. grain v.1 2 c.)
1880Libr. Univ. Knowl. XIII. 77 The liquid is drawn into other vats called ‘grainers’..[in which] the salt forms very rapidly. 1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl. 778/2.
3. (See quot. and cf. grain v.1 5.)
1891Labour Commission Gloss., Grainers, men in the printing industry who grain stone with sand for artists doing what is called ‘chalk work’.
4. A house-painter's graining-tool.
1858in Simmonds Dict. Trade; and in later Dicts.
5. One who paints in imitation of the grain of wood or the markings of marble.
1837Whittock Bk. Trades (1842) 356 The Grainer, who admirably imitates the grains of woods, marbles, etc. 1887Paperhanger, Painter, Grainer, etc. 105 Graining is the imitation, strictly speaking, of woods, although the term ‘grainer’ is often used..to signify a painter of marbles as well as of woods. 1891Daily News 21 Jan. 3/8 A sign writer and grainer.
▪ II. grainer2|ˈgreɪnə(r)|
[f. *grain vb. (f. grain n.2: cf. graining vbl. n.2 2) + -er1.]
One who uses a pronged fish-spear.
1894Outing (U.S.) XXIV. 56/1 Many grainers wore long rubber waders.
▪ III. grainer
variant of graner Obs. |