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noun

Grainer n.

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.

A knife for taking the hair off skins.

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

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Etymology of 'Grainer'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Grainer" Quotes from Famous Books

... dessay! I know. Every loafer that can't do nothink calls isself a painter. Well, I'm a real painter: grainer, finisher, thirty-eight bob a week when I can ...

— Major Barbara • George Bernard Shaw

... bell boy in a hotel, and from that passed on to other situations, realizing all the time, what every proud spirited boy would do under the circumstances, the bitterness that friendlessness, ignorance and poverty bring to the struggle of life. Among other things he learned the trade of painter and grainer, also that of printer, all the time storing his mind with what scraps of education that his life of poverty and toil permitted. After he gathered sufficient education he became a newspaper writer, and in 1877, at Rochelle, ...

— Volume 12 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann