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Definition of Close-grained
1. Adjective. Dense or compact in structure or texture, as a wood composed of small-diameter cells. "Fine-grained rock"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Close-grained
Literary usage of Close-grained
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue by Robert Ellis, Great Britain Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, London Great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, 1851 (1851)
"close-grained brown wood, subject to split, but would answer for hand-spikes.
... Small-sized, close-grained, and heavy red wood, would answer for ..."
2. The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Hume Greenfield, Henry Walter Bates (1833)
"White, close-grained, hard, not tough, and heavy ; grows to a small size, ...
A reddish brown, close-grained, hard wood ; very tough and smooth ; grows to ..."
3. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1897)
"close-grained iron, /j-inch hole drilled through in middle 2500 .14 in. ...
close-grained iron, ^-inch hole drilled f"6-inch from top of bar, . ..."
4. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1897)
"Л small tree with hard and close -grained wood. Leaves If long, pale green. 4.
... closegrained ..."
5. Select Extra-tropical Plants Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1884)
"It is close grained, well adapted for underground work; it combines lightness,
strength and durability; much sought by shipbuilders, as for knees, ..."
6. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh by Royal Society of Edinburgh (1904)
"These two statements seem to contradict one another, but really there is no
contradiction, for the close-grained atoms resist compressions because they ..."
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