graving

Pluralgravings

1. 1
   verbobsolete

   The -ing form of grave. This verb is old and now rare.

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2. 2
   nouncountable or uncountable

   The job of cleaning the bottom of a ship's hull.

   Like scrubbing the bottom of a boat to get the slime and weeds off.

   The graving of the hull took the whole crew three days in the dry dock.

   After the long voyage, the captain ordered a thorough graving before the next trip.

   Similarcareening

3. 3
   nounobsolete

   A design or picture cut into metal, wood, or stone.

   Like a drawing scratched into a coin instead of drawn with a pen.

   She admired the fine graving on the silver locket her grandmother left her.

   And the work itself of the bases, was intergraven: and there were gravings between the joinings.

   1610, Douay–Rheims Bible, 3 Kings vii. 28Here, gravings means designs carved into a hard surface.

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