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Meanings of close-grained in English
Dense or compact in structure or texture, as a wood composed of small-diameter cells.
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Usage of close-grained in English
1
The wood is hard, heavy, close-grained and of a fine red colour.
2
But the stones of the pebble bank are a close-grained, yellow-spotted rock.
3
Flesh pale yellow, zoned or circled with white, not close-grained, but sugary.
4
This shell is very close-grained and fine, but only moderately glossy.
5
The hard, close-grained timber requires days of hewing and sawing to get it severed.
6
Coarse-grained woods make up into furniture and take a more satisfactory finish than close-grained woods.
7
Flesh white, circled or zoned with bright pink; not very close-grained, but very sugary and well-flavored.
8
It should be made of close-grained, well-seasoned wood.
9
The wood is white, close-grained, tough, and light.
10
It is reddish, smooth, close-grained, and rather heavy.
11
They were a tough, hard, and close-grained wood.
12
The head should be made of close-grained, well-seasoned wood, and of the exact dimensions of the chamber.
13
They are made of the close-grained oak that grows in a high northern latitude, and well seasoned.
14
Flesh yellow, comparatively close-grained, sweet and tender.
15
The wood of them, which is white, close-grained, tough, and light, is well adapted to that purpose.
16
Thus did the seat of government and its needs drive another wedge of loose construction into close-grained theory.
Close-grained through the time