6 collocations for grain

Spalding's bullet had grazed its belly, raking off the hair and graining the skin; mine had gone through its head.

Suppose that hardened in long ages (as it would be under pressure) into a bed of fine grained Felstone, or volcanic ash; and we can understand how the ash-beds of Snowdoniawhich may be traced some of them for many square miles were laid down at the bottom of an ancient sea.

While the battle of Verdun was in progress, the Germans also made determined attacks in the Champagne region, graining some ground; but on March 1 the Allied lines were holding fast all along the western front.

Knives were originally made of stone, as were also war clubs, mauls, and some of the scrapers for fleshing and graining hides.

When they first begin to settle in a new country, they make the houses of logs, and they have to take the corn and grain a great many miles on horseback, through paths in the woods, or, in the winter, on hand-sleds, to get it ground.

Thence only impotent icy grains Scatters he as he wings his flight, Striping with sleet the verdant plains; But the sun endureth no trace of white; Everywhere growth and movement are rife, All things investing with hues of life

6 collocations for  grain