Obs. exc. in north. dial. [Origin unknown.] The grain of wood or stone.
1664. Power, Exp. Philos., III. 159. Finding the grain and bait of the stone to lye fit for their Tranation.
1692. Ray, Disc., II. v. (1732), 231. The Bate or Texture of the wood.
1746. Arderon, in Phil. Trans., XLIV. 185. I sawed seven Pieces cross the Bate or Grain.
1879. Jamieson, Bait, the grain of wood or stone. Aberd.
