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type, btit half circular or partially in section, used where 

 hollows or flutes are required an important instrument in 

 " wood-carving," or in cutting holes, channels and grooves. 



Grace or Days of Grace. In commerce, a customary number 

 of days allowed for the payment of a note, or bill of exchange, 

 other than those payable on demand. In Great Britain 

 they are three days of grace. 



Grade and Graded. Terms in the wood trade, as " high-grade," 

 "low-grade," "poor-grade" and "graded," meaning goods 

 examined or assorted into " grades " or qualities. They 

 are not dictionary words in this advanced sense, but there 

 denote " steps " or " degrees." " Grade " and " Graded " have 

 their equivalents in " Assortment " and " Assorted " (which 

 latter see). 



Graft. A small shoot or bud of a tree inserted in a cut or dug 

 into a " stock " or " young tree " intended to be its future 

 support. 



Grain. In wood, a term used with reference to the arrangement 

 or direction of the wood elements and to the relative width 

 of the growth rings. 



Granadillo (Amyris balsamafera). A red, figured, aromatic, 

 resinous, hardwood imported from Cuba. Used for turnery. 



Gravel Board or Plank. The horizontal board placed on its 

 edge upon the ground at the bottom of a pale fence. 



Gravel Board Stumps. Supports to the gravel board driven into 

 the ground between the posts to support the gravel board. 



Green Oak. Oak which, owing to the action of fungus tinder 

 certain conditions, turns vivid green. The colour being 

 permanent the wood is in great request, but attempts to 

 obtain this colour by artificial means have not been successful. 



Greenheart (Nectandra rodicei). A large and important tree, a 

 native of Guiana and tropical America, the wood of which 

 is proof against the action of sea-worms, hence it is largely 

 used for clock and harbour work and ship-building. See 

 " Snape or Snape-ended." 



Gregorian Tree. The gallows, so named from three successive 

 hangmen the Brandons, whose front names were Gregory. 



. . . "And he 

 Doth fear his fate from the Gregorian tree." 



Mercuitus Pragmaticus, 1041. 



Grinding Machines (for Woodworkers). A name generally 

 describing the various machines for sharpening saws and 

 cutting tools in which a revolving wheel of abrasive material 

 is used developments of the old hand- or foot-txirned 

 " grindstones " (ivhich see). 



