"hard-grained" meaning in English

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      "form": "most hard-grained",
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          "text": "hard-grained wood",
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        "Having a dense firm grain."
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          "text": "A few sentences will suffice to indicate an idea of it. The pervading characteristic of all our Scottish songs seems to be that hard-grained, and not unfrequently sarcastic sagacity, which is the national mark, go where you will.",
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          "ref": "1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Though a hard-grained man, close, dry, and silent, he can enjoy old wine with the best. He has a priceless bin of port in some artful cellar under the Fields, which is one of his many secrets.",
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        "Uninviting; dour."
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        "Having a dense firm grain."
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