cross-grained wood

When the mortar is firm enough, proceed to float up with a cross-grained wood float.

He had moved the table under the direct light from the window, and was bending over the tough, cross-grained wood and the awkward knife with knit brows, breathing heavily.

Other potential roles for puriri include post, wharf and bridge pilings, as pine requires a high degree of preservative treatment and can break too readily under pressure due to lack of cross-grained wood.

He drew a distinction between cross-grained wood and long-grained, knocked on elm, pine, pear wood, oak, maple, beech, and soft linden wood, chatted about rare woods and the annual rings in trees.