Grainer vs Gainer - What's the difference?
grainer | gainer |
A knife for taking the hair off skins.
An infusion of pigeon's dung used by tanners to neutralize the effects of lime and give flexibility to skins; -- called also grains and bate.
One who paints in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc.; also, the brush or tool used in graining.
One who gains a profit or advantage.
One who puts on weight.
(sports, slang) A diving (or gymnastics) maneuver (from a high-dive diving board or high diving platform) involving a simultaneous inversion and rotation.
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As nouns the difference between grainer and gainer
is that grainer is a knife for taking the hair off skins while gainer is one who gains a profit or advantage.grainer
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* ----gainer
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(en noun)- I tried a full gainer with a twist, the way he did it, but succeeded only in smacking the water with my thighs.