Definitions
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- adjective of timber; having fibers that run in parallel
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Examples
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* WOOD: Standard wood such as straight-grained, strong walnut runs $1,500.
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The split ash logs I was burning were clean, white and straight-grained, so I took one outside next day and took my axe to it, splitting off a triangular piece roughly the right size for a handle.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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The split ash logs I was burning were clean, white and straight-grained, so I took one outside next day and took my axe to it, splitting off a triangular piece roughly the right size for a handle.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Squinting against the morning sun across the flat calm Solent, we made out the silhouettes of dozens of yachts off Cowes: a distant forest of masts and sails that not long ago would have been wooden, crafted from straight-grained spruce, but were probably almost all aluminium or carbon fibre.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Squinting against the morning sun across the flat calm Solent, we made out the silhouettes of dozens of yachts off Cowes: a distant forest of masts and sails that not long ago would have been wooden, crafted from straight-grained spruce, but were probably almost all aluminium or carbon fibre.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Tomorrow it would be swiftly converted into salt and herbs, grain and leather, metal weapons and staves of true, straight-grained wood for looms and arrows (all things the Shin'a'in did not produce themselves) but for this night, they would admire their short-term wealth and celebrate.
Oathblood Lackey, Mercedes 1998
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He'd been nine years old the day he took the perfect, straight-grained branch as his price for felling the hickory for Taron, its owner.
Lord of the Isles 1997
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Curly-grained wood, the result of both stress and genetics, is preferred over straight-grained wood.
Chapter 8 1996
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The wood is used for lumber and is straight-grained and medium textured with a moderately rough surface without luster.
Chapter 8 1996
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Curly-grained wood, the result of both stress and genetics, is preferred over straight-grained wood.
Chapter 2 1990
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