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against the grain
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Against the Grain is the fifth album by singer–songwriter Phoebe Snow , released in 1978 .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grain \Grain\ (gr[=a]n), n. [F. grain, L. granum, grain, seed, small kernel, small particle. See Corn , and cf. Garner , n., Garnet , Gram the chick-pea, Granule , Kernel. ] A single small hard seed; a kernel, especially of those plants, like wheat, whose ...
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prep.phr. 1 (context woodworking of sanding or planing a piece of wood English) Preventing a smooth, level surface from being formed by raising the nap of the wood or causing larger splinters to form ahead of the cutting tool below the cutting surface. ...
Usage examples of against the grain.
All right, much as it goes against the grain, I can see I still have to prove myself.
In thirty-five years he had built up the biggest independently owned fleet of tankers outside the hands of the Greeks and the Hong Kong Chinese, The Nordia Line was his creation, diversifying from dry-cargo ships to tankers in the mid-fifties, laying out the money, building the ships for the oil needs of the sixties, backing his own judgment, often going against the grain.
She reached for his face to feel the smoothness of his cheek, then, rubbing against the grain, an incipient roughness.
A man for whom he had had no love or even liking, a surly old bully who had enjoyed battering his more timid pupils at exercise, and taken it sourly against the grain if anyone bested him: what need was there to weep for Stury?
One cuts much better against the grain of the wood and the other with it.
Neither of them developed into a true man: a little bit soft, a little bit against the grain.
The radically redesigned playfield apparently went against the grain of the company that traditionally has been the most conservative of pinball manufacturers, and after a brief run it was dropped from their line.