Usually means: Wood fibers running against main direction.
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  1. cross-grained: Merriam-Webster
  2. cross-grained: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cross-grained: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cross-grained, cross-grained: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cross-grained: Vocabulary.com
  6. cross-grained: Wordnik
  7. cross-grained: Wiktionary
  8. cross-grained: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. cross-grained: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. cross-grained: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. cross-grained: Dictionary.com
  12. cross-grained: Rhymezone
  13. cross-grained: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. CROSS-GRAINED: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  15. Cross-grained: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  16. cross-grained: FreeDictionary.org
  17. cross-grained: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. cross-grained: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cross-grained: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cross-grained)

▸ adjective:  (of timber) Having an irregular rather than a parallel grain.
▸ adjective:  (by extension) Difficult to deal with; contrary or troublesome.

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contrarious, stubborn, uneven, crossgrained, grained, multigrooved, polygrooved, grooved, multigranulate, indented, more...

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contrarious, stubborn, uneven, crossgrained, grained, multigrooved, polygrooved, grooved, multigranulate, indented, more...



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