cross-grain
/ˈkrɒsɡreɪn
/adjective [attributive]
Running across the regular grain in timber: cross-grain swelling...
- How about a rabbet with a rabbeted cleat pinned underneath with dowels (in elongated holes, to allow seasonal cross-grain dimension change)?
- To prevent cross-grain cracking, follow the paint manufacturer's recommendations for spreading rates.
- full-scale
- full score
- full-service broker
- full-service brokerage
- full sister
- full-size
- full-sized
- full steam (or speed) ahead
- full stop
- full term
- full-throated
- full-time
- full time
- full-timer
- full-toned
- full to overflowing
- full toss
- full to the brim
- full up to dolly's wax
- fully
- -fully
- fully fashioned
- fully fledged
- fulmar
- fulminant