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roughcast |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Roughcast \Rough`cast"\, v. t. 1. To form in its first rudiments, without revision, correction, or polish. --Dryden. 2. To mold without nicety or elegance; to form with asperities and inequalities. 3. To plaster with a mixture of lime and shells or pebbles; as to roughcast a building. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Roughcast \Rough"cast`\, n. 1. A rude model; the rudimentary, unfinished form of a thing 2. A kind of plastering made of lime, with a mixture of shells or pebbles, used for covering buildings. --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: roughcast n 1: a coarse plaster for the surface of external walls 2: a rough preliminary model v 1: shape roughly 2: apply roughcast to (as of a wall) 3: hew roughly, without finishing the surface; "rough-hew stone or timber" [syn: {rough-hew}]
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