Brewer's: Cross-grained

Patchy, ill-tempered, self-willed. Wood must be worked with the grain; when the grain crosses we get a knot or curling, which is hard to work uniform.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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