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1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 352/1 A Graining Board..is a Board with Nicks in after the manner of a Saw, if you look sideways at it, but turn it up and you will perceive the Nicks, Teeth or Riggets (call them which you will) run quite a-thwart the Board.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Graining-board, a Board made with Nicks, or Teeth like a Saw, and us'd by Curriers in graining their Leather.

1846 R. B. Sage Scenes Rocky Mts. xxxiii. 288 Near this is his ‘graining block’, planted aslope, for the ease of his operative in preparing his skins for the finishing process in the art of dressing.

1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Graining machine (Leather manufacture), a machine having rollers with raised, parallel, straight, or diagonal threads, which indent the goat or sheep skins and confer the wrinkled appearance to morocco leather.

1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Graining-tool [=graining comb].

1875 T. Seaton Man. Fret Cutting 141 The details of the hair and curls must now be worked out with fine hollow gouges and graining gouges.

1881 F. Young Every Man his own Mechanic §1603 The leather and metal graining combs with which graining in imitation of any kind of wood is done. Graining rollers are made for imitating various kinds of wood.

1959 R. Hostettler et al. Techn. Terms Printing Industry (ed. 3) 114/1 Graining machine for offset plates.

1960 G. A. Glaister Gloss. Bk. 158/2 Graining boards, boards or metal plates used by the binder to produce a diced effect on covers. The boards have a pattern in relief of parallel lines running diagonally.