grainer-grain: meaning, definitions and translations

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What is grainer? grainer is grain

What is grain?

  • A knife for taking the hair off skins.

    Un ganivet per prendre el pèl de pells.

  • An infusion of pigeon's dung used by tanners to neutralize the effects of lime and give flexibility to skins; -- called also grains and bate.

    Una infusió d'excrements de Colom utilitzat per blanquers de neutralitzar els efectes de la calç i donar flexibilitat als pells; -anomenat també cereals i Arge.

  • One who paints in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc.; also, the brush or tool used in graining.

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